DiegoRS
4 years agoLevel 3
About duplicating tapes or cloning tapes
Good morning to everybody! I have a need and I would like to know if it is possible to solve it. I have a backup stored on physical tapes, which is very important to the business. For auditing pur...
- 4 years ago
hi DiegoRS
The command you are looking for is bpduplicate
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/123533878-127136857-0/v123537351-127136857
It not the worlds easiest command to work with, so some practice may be required.
One thing to remember, you need to promote the new copy as new primary copy, else Netbackup will request the current tape for each restore request.
You can also duplicate tape from the GUI, see:
duplicating backup is a question frequently asked, so help can be found searching on VOX