Just a suggestion it may not work in practice but what about doing 
something i suggested but create a storage unit in netbackup as a disk 
device and tell your policy to use that.

Then when invoking bparchive it would write things to a different set of 
disks/array which the customers could still have access to for archived 
data. It would also still have the added benefit of removing it from 
live data storage area thus saving space.

An idea maybe?

Dave


Simon Weaver wrote:

> Dave
>I don't really want to go down this route - maybe an Archiving software
>solution, where the data is stored on another array (maybe getting
>backed up once a month) and still accessible to customers!
>
>
>Simon 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Dave
>Markham
>Sent: 06 December 2005 17:01
>To: Simon.Weaver
>Cc: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] ARchiving Old Data
>
>I have read the threads here and no-one has mentioned the simple
>scripting technique.
>
>I use bparchive quite a bit to archive logs and other things older than
>x days on various servers. If its any use this is how i do things using
>netbackup and solaris.
>
>Netbackup :-
>
>Standard policy with a volume pool of log_archive
>
>A schedule of type User_Archive with a long retention period and using
>log_archive tape pool
>
>Have a backup window of 2200 -> 1200am
>
>No backup selections and all clients added i want to be able to archive
>data
>
>
>Clients :-
>
>On each client i have a simple shell script called from cron each night
>around 11pm.
>This simply finds files older than x amount of time and puts them in a
>list to be archived.
>Then if the list is > 0 bytes it invokes bparchive with the file list.
>This then backs files up to tape and removes them from the server
>automatically.
>Its a fully automated system and reports through netbackup as a separate
>job. I find it very useful for archiving of data to tape and removing
>from server in the same go.
>
>Example of the dead simple shell script to use :-
>
>
>
>#!/bin/sh
>WR=/usr/openv/netbackup/bin
>hostname=`hostname`
>
>#########################################################
>#
># Make sure to check when directing find command to file.
># >> /tmp/cout is to be DELETED
># >> /tmp/fout is to be ARCHIVED TO TAPE #
>#########################################################
>
>
> > /tmp/fout
> > /tmp/cout
>
>#archive files
>find /opt/HTTPD/logs/access_log* -type f -mtime +30 >> /tmp/fout
>2>/dev/null find /opt/HTTPD/logs/error_log* -type f -mtime +30 >>
>/tmp/fout 2>/dev/null find /opt/HTTPD/logs/error-ssl_log* -type f -mtime
>+30 >> /tmp/fout 
>2>/dev/null
>find /var/audit/*$hostname -type f -mtime +14 |grep -v not >> /tmp/fout 
>2>/dev/null
>
># Delete files older than 30 days in tmp find /tmp/ -mtime +30 -type f
>  
>
>>>/tmp/cout
>>>      
>>>
>
>
>if [ -s /tmp/cout ];then
>        cat /tmp/cout | xargs rm
>fi
>
>if [ -s /tmp/fout ];then
>        $WR/bparchive -L /var/log/arch.log -f /tmp/fout f
>
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