Re: [Veritas-bu] Preventing duplication from using tapes

Thanks but that wasn’t quite what I’m asked. I’m not looking to redo our duplication strategy as we’re already planning to do that with implementation of Data Domain in the near future.

I’m asking if there is any way to suspend the primary tapes so that duplication ignores them until I’ve unsuspended them. Since actual “suspend” doesn’t do this I was looking for an alternate way to make duplication ignore them.

From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 11:22 AM
To: Jeff Lightner
Cc: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Preventing duplication from using tapes

On 11/5/07, Jeff Lightner <jlightner AT water DOT com> wrote:

Is there any way to mark a tape temporarily in such a way that Duplication would not select it but it would still be available when restore did?

The best way would be to write the image to a disk staging storage unit - it's then available for restores as well as dupes at the same time. The next choice would to be to write the image to a different media pool and schedule a manual duplication at a different time than your standard duplications. I think either would solve your issue.

The one thing you have to watch out for is that you don't unnecessarily delay that duplication - after all, it's your production data that you're protecting. Make sure that the duplications are still automatically scheduled so that nobody forgets about them.

.../Ed

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

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