Hi, It is the best practice to consolidate all backups to one backup solution and keep the older separate as a small environment for restores from old tapes. That is what I did when I needed to migrate from ArcServe and consolidate all existing backups to NetBackup. I have a small tape liner for restores with ArcServe and all SAN based tape libraries now with NetBackup. I think, this approach is much less expensive and time consuming.
Regards, Boris On 7/6/07, Jenner, Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Guys, Thanks for all of the responses, they pretty much confirm what I thought. I think we may just leave a scaled down Legato system in place which can be shut down when the last tape expires in seven years. Regards, Steve. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lamont2k5 Sent: 06 July 2007 05:50 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] migrating Legato images from tape to NetBackup I think this also applies to other backup software (other than BEWS). Had one client asking for the same thing, migrate their EDM (an old emc backup) tapes to NetBackup. But if would be the case - restore then backup again to NBU - it would really eat up a lot of resources. They decided not to take that path, instead they opted to maintain their old system to cater for the restore requests. :) -lamont On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:38:09 +0800, Sponsler, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I worked with Symantec some time ago with this very issue. > And the short answer is no, there is no other way other than manually > restoring the data than backing up up with netbackup. > -- > Mike Sponsler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Northrop Grumman Information Technology > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jenner, > Steven > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 3:54 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Veritas-bu] migrating Legato images from tape to NetBackup > > > > Hi, > > > I am looking at consolidating two disparate backup systems one running > Legato the other NetBackup. > > > As I come from the NetBackup School I would like to ensure the new > system runs on NetBackup; however I have an issue with archived data > held on tape that was backed up using Legato. The other team have a > retention policy of seven years therefore existing backup images created > with the Legato system are not due to expire any time soon and could be > called upon for a restore at any time. > > > Is there a way to migrate the data held on the Legato media to the > NetBackup system, other than manually restoring the data to a server > from the Legato tapes then backing up with NetBackup? > > > We are talking about several hundred tapes therefore the manual process > detailed above would be extremely time consuming. > > > Any suggestions? > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Steve. > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
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