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Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 8:22 AM
To: Jeff Lightner
Cc: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Preventing duplication from using tapes
On 11/5/07, Jeff Lightner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any way to mark a tape temporarily
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Preventing duplication from using tapes
The duplication scheduling fits fine 95% of the time. Refreshes are
done as requested by environment owners rather than on a regular basis
like duplications. Typically we use the latest backup which is why we
try to preclude
Sounds like a bug to me.
Paul
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff
Lightner
Sent: November 5, 2007 11:06 AM
To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Preventing duplication
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?
Background:
We're using NBU 6.0 MP4.
We do data refreshes on demand from Production backups to Dev/Test
environments.
Typically we suspend the tapes
On 11/5/07, Jeff Lightner [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
: Monday, November 05, 2007 11:10 AM
To: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Preventing duplication from using tapes
Sounds like a bug to me.
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby
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Sent: November 5, 2007 12:25 PM
To: Paul Keating; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Preventing duplication from using tapes
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? [...]
While suspending the
tapes prevents them from being used by backups on the original host it
does not prevent the duplication job from
The duplication scheduling fits fine 95% of the time. Refreshes are
done as requested by environment owners rather than on a regular basis
like duplications. Typically we use the latest backup which is why we
try to preclude use of the tapes for other purposes rather than mucking
with the entire
