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Anushi's avatar
Anushi
Level 3
10 years ago

Duplicating the old images

Hi,

   This is the new environment. One Appliance in Primary site and one in DR site. I started taking Backups from Sep 1st week to primary Appliance and replicating to DR Appliance with retention 2 months in both sites.

   Now i want to duplicate all old images in Primary site from Disk to Tape and keep retention for four months. Future duplication it can be done through SLP. But how to duplicate old images which i have from Sep to Tapes?

Should i do using bpduplicate or vault? This is one time process. Can you all help me in your suggestions?

 

Thanks,

Anushi

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  • tunix2k's avatar
    tunix2k
    10 years ago

    Hi,

     

    sound you should use bpduplicate. 

    The command is: 

    bpduplicate -Bidfile /tmp/bid1  -dstunit <mytape-storage-unit> -dp <my_tape_pool>  -rl 13  -L /tmp/progress1.ls

    the file bid1 conatins the list of all images to duplicate.

    -rl 13 means retention level 13, you have to define your retention level for 4 month. Defaults are 2 or 6 month

    ciao

    Martin

  • tunix2k's avatar
    tunix2k
    Level 5
    10 years ago

    Hi,

     

    sound you should use bpduplicate. 

    The command is: 

    bpduplicate -Bidfile /tmp/bid1  -dstunit <mytape-storage-unit> -dp <my_tape_pool>  -rl 13  -L /tmp/progress1.ls

    the file bid1 conatins the list of all images to duplicate.

    -rl 13 means retention level 13, you have to define your retention level for 4 month. Defaults are 2 or 6 month

    ciao

    Martin

  • RiaanBadenhorst's avatar
    RiaanBadenhorst
    Level 6
    10 years ago

    bpduplicate or simply by finding the images in the catalog section and duplicating from there. If its a lot then using bpimagelist to first get a list (to put in the bidfile for use with bpduplicate) would be handy. You can then make a few bidfiles and run it in batches to ensure your duplications work fine.

  • Michael_G_Ander's avatar
    Michael_G_Ander
    Level 6
    10 years ago

    If it is two different backup domains (masters) use nbreplicate in place of bpduplicate, be aware that the -help  option is missing the needded -target_sts in 7.6

  • Anushi's avatar
    Anushi
    Level 3
    10 years ago

    Thank you so much for all your replies. Much appreciated..  Sure will use you command.

     

    Thanks,

    Anushi