[Veritas-bu] 2 backup masters in one environment.

#2, no problem.  I do it today.

#1, backups might work but I'll bet restores will fail.  If you initiate a
client-side restore, it contacts the master server, the first "SERVER = " in
the bp.conf file.  If you have two master servers, I don't see how you could
easily decide which one to contact in a restore situation.

Another option would be to do away with NB as a backup.  If you just mount a
bunch of disks on your DB servers, then RMAN can just do a backup to disk -
it doesn't have to send it's backups to tape drives.  The OPEN SBT_TAPE FOR
BACKUP can be   OPEN DISK FOR BACKUP.  Get yourself a big NAS device, mount
it to each DB server & you're golden.

If you love NB, then you could make one of the DB servers a media server,
mount disk to it, then backup to a disk storage unit defined off your new
DB/media server.

HTH - M

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hello all,

The problem I am having is architectural.     here it goes.....

I have 4 oracle db servers running Solaris 8 netbackup client version 
4.5FP7.  Our Netbackup environment is outsourced to our hosting provider and

they currently are backing up to tape.  I would like to purchase netbackup 6

(only because it's the latest, it doesn't have to be this version) and 
backup the same 4 db servers to disk.  the problem is that the outsourced 
hosting provider who manages the netbackup 'network' will not add my disk 
based backup solution into the mix.  What are my options if I want to keep 
their setup and add another environment on my own and backup the same 4 db 
servers.

1. can I have 2 backup master servers backing up the same client (as long as

the schedules don't conflict) with the 2 servers NOT knowing about each 
other.

2. if not, can I have 2 media servers backing up the same client?  I could 
probably get away with asking the hosting provider to add my server in their

mix as a media server and I'll connect my disk based hardware appliance to 
it. 

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