Can't really do this under Netbackup control.  If netbackup writes the tape
then netbackup should read the tape.  This means the catalog and all the
other happy crap that comes along with it.

When I get a request like this, I grab an unassigned tape, remove the
barcode, remove the tape from netbackup's databases, then just use tar to
write over the tape.

You can use a library drive if you just "down" it so NB ignores the drive
for the duration of your activity.

You could use NB to write a non-mutiplexed set of images, then instruct the
user to on how to skip all the netbackup headers and read the tar files
following the headers.  Special handling, in my experience, means future
problems, though.  

-M

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 3:45 PM
To: List Veritas List
Subject: [Veritas-bu] One-off backups


We're starting to get requests to create one-off backups to a tape that
we can eject from our library and hand to a customer.  What's the
recommended way of doing this?  We're running Solaris 9, NBU 4.5FP6, and
and have the Vault option.  Once we've handed the tape to a customer, we
don't need (or want) the catalog information for this, nor do we want
the tape in any pool.  Basically we want to write the tape and then
forget we ever saw it.  If it makes a difference, we would be writing
to an SDLT tape drive in an L700 library.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

-- 
Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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