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mhdganji
Level 3
3 years ago

Copy disk backups to tape without rerun backup from main virtual machines

Hi, I've made basic disk backups on the master/media server and recently added the tape library. Because of slow network and machines, I like to copy all the backups on disk to tape and not to run ...
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    quebek
    3 years ago

    Hi

    Go to Netbackup management in JAVA GUI, then to Catalog, than in Action select Duplicate - select your basic disk type and desired date/time range... and press search... once all backup images will be found, select the ones you want to duplicate by highlighting these and right click to perform duplication - where you will point to tape storage unit as well you can set volume pool and desired retention. 

    that's all ;)

    if you are proficient in CLI try to engage bpduplicate command... :)

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mhdganji
Level 3

Thanks, seems like a piece of cake. I'll test it when my jobs on tape are done and the Media is available

Just another thing: is this just like the actual backup is made from, let's say my VM on the vCenter to the tape. I mean, if I need to restore these moved-to-tape-from-basic-disk backups, simply can find and restore them from tape or any other operation like importing or so is firstly needed prior to the final VM restore?

Regards

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quebek
Moderator
3 years ago

Hello

Should be looking like that - if you will select during duplication that this is primary copy it will use tapes - restore. Some restores from tapes are no go - like instant recovery and maybe some for Exchange... I do not recall but pure vm based backup should be OK. Just remember that doing a file level restore from tape will be long lasting task...