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Ahmed_ELHalwagy's avatar
Ahmed_ELHalwagy
Level 4
13 years ago

GRT on virtual tape

i want to backup Active Directory and Exchange using GRT but i am facing a problem with GRT technology, GRT needs physical disk i have a virtual taope which means disks but seen by netbackup as a v...
7.1.x and Earlier
Active Directory Recovery Agent
Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server
Agent for Microsoft SharePoint
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Drivers
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  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    Mark_Solutions
    13 years ago

    You really need to go through the guide as this is fairly basic NetBackup configuration.

    NetBackup Admin Guide - Section 3 - Chapter 10 covers creating disk staging storage units.

    Once created set your policies to use it and enable GRT duplication on the Master Server Host Properties - General tab.

    Once the disk copy has gone and you only have it on tape then go to the Catalog Section, select Duplicate at the top and search for the backup.

    Select it and duplicate it back to the disk storage unit

    After that you will be able to restore GRT information from it.

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Marianne
Level 6
13 years ago

All your questions are answered in the section of the manual that Mark referred you to. There is also a section to determine space needed...

Duplication/staging will not automatically delete/expire images on disk. Disk images are controlled by expiration date/retention level in schedule or high water mark - which ever comes first.

Think about it - if you want to restore from GRT backup, the images MUST be on disk. So, you want at least the last backup to be on disk and not deleted automatically after duplicated to tape.