Re: [Veritas-bu] ALT_RESTORE_COPY_NUMBER file

2009-10-25 Thread bob944
Our last DR exercise, we tried using this file to switch quickly to our duplicate copies. What we found out is that it works perfectly for Windows clients, but doesn't work for UNIX clients unless bprestore is used from the command line. We were using 6.0 MP5 last year, this year we are

[Veritas-bu] General Backup Question: Offsite tape rotation

2009-10-25 Thread Heathe Yeakley
I'm deploying a NetApp Virtual Tape Library at work right now, and I have an engineer from NetApp coming in to help me set it up. I was explaining to him how we rotate tapes, and he seemed a little bewildered at our rotation method. I've never done tape backup/recovery anywhere else, so to me, our