Duplicate secondary image on CAS directly to attached tape library

Hi Jan,

 

You'd simply add in a stage to duplicate the backup sets for those particular jobs to tape...this would be done with the job you have currently configured.

Thanks!

Hi Jan,

I believe what you intend to do here is to duplicate the backed up data on tapes using the deduplicated disk pool on the CAS server as source. These are my thoughts on it;

I do not think this is acheivable automatically by adding a duplicate job. A duplicate job uses the related backup job as its source; quote from BE Admin guide - About duplicating backed up data

"When you duplicate backup data with a duplicate stage, the stage uses the related, or linked backup job in the backup definition as source"

Also when you use optimized duplication to duplicate backup sets between two backup servers you will be required to inventory and catalog that media before  you can actually use it;

Quote from BE Admin guide - About copying deduplicated data between OpenStorage Devices or deduplication disk storage devices by using optimized duplication

" You must inventory and catalog the media on the destination server before you recover any files from the duplicated backup set. You must do this regardless of how the catalog sharing option is configured for CASO."

However once you inventory and catlog the media on the destination backup server, you should be able to duplicate the backup sets manually to tapes.

Hope this helps and this is my understanding and I might be wrong :)

Kind Regards,

Majid.

...that's an oversight. Might be worth your while to get onto the BE 2014 Beta to see if you can get your answer there!

Thanks!

Thank you CraigV.

Definitely, we will look into the BE 2014 Beta and try to request/verify if this feature to be/is supported.

Cheers!

Hi Jan,

just to be sure to understand what you want.

You have a Managed Media Server (as Appliance) on a remote location and the Central Admin Server with Dedup-Device and attached Tape-Library in the Datacenter.

You want to do a backup on remote site to the Appliance, then duplicate it to CAS and then write it to Tape on CAS-Site.

If it is so, then you have to do the following:

Make your CAS-Server to act as a "Private Cloud Server". Without that setting you are not able to duplicate Jobs to tape-devices that are not hosted by the remote server:

Select Backup Server > Properties > Setting > Enable Private Cloud Server

 

Then create a job:

1. Backup to BEMS

2. Add Stage from the first Job > Duplicate to CAS

3. Add Stage from the second Job > Duplicate to Tape

Should work.

Regards, Georg

 

Hi Georg,

Thank you for this input. So the requirement will be satisfied by enabling Private cloud Server feature.

We will look into this possibility and hopefully it works.

 

regards, Jan