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Codders
Level 4
10 years ago

Backup to disk, duplicate to disk then duplicate to tape

Hi there,

 

Using BUE2014 I'd like to create a job that backs data to a deduplication disk store on server A and then duplicate to another dedupe store on server B automaitcally, eg, when the backup job finishes.  This I'm fine with.  My query is with the next step as what I'm wanting to do is than add a third stage that copies the full backups to tape (again automatically) after the dedupe to dedupe storage stage has ran - only I'd like the source of the data to be server A and not server B.  The reason is that server B is off site whereas the tape library is connected to server A - hence I'll end up pulling more data across my WAN links.

If I opt to backup to tape before duplicating the data to server B I'm presuming the source for the dedupe to server B will be the tape?

Aside from creating a static scheduled job, I cannot see a way of doing this.  Does anyone have any ideas?

Source VM --> backup to Server A (site A) -> duplicate to Server B (site B) -> backup the full backup from Server A to tape (Site A)

Thanks in advance :-)

 

Danny

 

  • You should be able to add two duplicate stages to the full backup stage such that the full backup is the source for both duplicates.

     

  • You should be able to add two duplicate stages to the full backup stage such that the full backup is the source for both duplicates.

     

  • Thanks VJware.....feeling somewhat embarrased that I didn't spot this!