My thought as well, just wanted someone to confirm ;)

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Jeff Lightner wrote:

> I don't think inline copy is what the OP is talking about.
>
> My read is he wants to multiplex a tape backup with a duplication to
> tape from a backup previously written to his disk storage.
>
> I don't think that is possible since bpbkup and bpduplicate are separate
> processes.  I haven't attempted it and wouldn't think it advisable to do
> it even if it were possible.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Justin
> Piszcz
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:44 PM
> To: Andrey Halezov
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpduplicate disk => tape. Can running backup
> and duplicate share the tape?
>
>
>
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Andrey Halezov wrote:
>
>> Justin,
>> Thank you for your answer.
>>
>> I have available tapes (I rerun "available_media" each time
>> bpduplicate failed ).
>>
>> xbpmon JobMonitor GUI shows currently running backup job, which
>> explains why NetBackup can't mount the new tape (I only have one tape
>> drive). I am trying to understand why backup and duplicate can't share
>> the same tape?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Andrey
>
> If you search this list someone did report backing up to a disk storage
> unit
> and tape at the same time, but you need to use in-line tape copy to do
> this.
> .. (and also the license for it)
>
> As for as doing a bpduplicate job while a backup is running when the
> only
> drive available is being used, I have not tried doing it in that
> scenario.
> Also NetBackup 3.x?? Did you plan on upgrading anytime soon? :-)
>
> I see what you want to do.
>
> Regular backups -------> MPX1 -----> TAPE
>                 \------> MPX2 -----> TAPE
>                 /------> MPX3 -----> TAPE
> Duplicate from /-------> MPX4 -----> TAPE
> Disk
>
> However, I have not tried this, anyone else on the list try this with
> one one tape drive available?
>
> He wants to multiplex a duplicate job from disk -> tape while other jobs
> are running to that tape as well.
>
> Justin.
>
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