Thanks for the responses, but so far it sounds like Vault is required to
produce this record, correct?  At this time we do not have or plan to
purchase Vault.  Anyone out there doing this with Iron Mountain without
Vault and care to share how you are doing it?
Thanks 

Wayne BeDour
IT Unix System Administrator
PH: 313-240-3374  FAX: 313-240-3065
Internet:  wbedour AT lear DOT com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Worman [mailto:rob AT worman DOT org] 
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 12:17 PM
To: shanel AT google DOT com
Cc: BeDour, Wayne; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Iron Mountain & NetBackup


On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:16:45AM -0700 or thereabouts, Shane Liebling
wrote:
>    6.0's Vault has Iron Mountain ftp file generation and upload built
in,
>    though I don't know if you want to upgrade.  Our company hasn't.
We just
<snip>

Shane-

I apologize, but I think you are mistaken on two points:

(1) the NBU Vault capability that Wayne is asking about
(to produce an Iron Mountain FTP file) is not new to 6.0;
it has been a feature since 4.5 FP3, IIRC.

(2) there is no upload capability. Vault writes the IM text file 
in a certain format (the one used by Iron Mountain's internal
tracking software) to a user-specified directory on your master 
server.  It's then up to the user to transport the file to 
Iron Mountain.  (but it wouldn't be too hard to automate it
using a .netrc file and the Vault hooks to run a "notify script" 
at the end of a vault job.)


HTH
rob


>    have a script or two that checks for the contents of the library,
takes
>    that and runs it through bpmedialist looking for FULL tapes.  It
then
>    tosses those tapes and their expiration dates into a file.  We then
have
>    another script to upload that to ironmountain run through cron.
> 
>    -Shane
> 
>    On 5/4/06, BeDour, Wayne <WBedour AT lear DOT com> wrote:
> 
>      Our environment is HP-UX 11.11, Netbackup 5.1 MP3 backing up
mostly HP
>      unix with some Sun and Windows backups.   We are changing offsite
>      storage sites and have selected Iron Mountain.  I  'm just
beginning to
>      look into the ftp file that we will be sending to Iron Mountain
and have
>      not talked to their people yet about this.  I remember past posts

>      referring to Iron Mountain and NetBackup.  I did a search and
couldn 't
>      find much.  Is there anything already set up in NetBackup to
create this
>      ftp file?  Is Vault required?  If someone out there is doing this
>      without vault can you share how you are doing it and any scripts
>      associated with it ?
> 
>      Thanks in advance
> 
>      Wayne BeDour
> 
>      IT Unix System Administrator
> 
>      PH: 313-240-3374  FAX: 313-240-3065
> 
>      Internet:  wbedour AT lear DOT com
> 
>       
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