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bandit61
Level 6
8 years ago

Duplicate existing backup set to tape

OS: W2012R2 Product BE15 FSP5 we had to duplicate a weekend backupset of 2 lto6 tapes. We configured direct copy to tape and notification. The job were successful, but we had to run an additional I...
  • Hopsnbarley's avatar
    8 years ago

    The DirectCopy to tape is typically used for duplicating from a virtual tape library directly to a physical tape device. Both the source device and the destination device must be NDMP enabled. If the devices are not NDMP enabled then Backup Exec performs a regulat duplicate backup job.