Netbackup 8.2 - need a 2nd copy of a tape
MASTER/MEDIA netbackup 8.1.1 server is a windows 2012 r2. USing a quantum i500 with 6 LT06 tape drives
I will be perfroming some Archives soon with a retention of infinity to LT06 tapes and the client that is requesting these archives now wants to have a 2nd tape of the archive. We were originally just going to send these archive tapes offsite to iron mountain but now they want One tape to be housed onsite and the other to be housed at iron mtn. These archives tapes contain a different barcode sequence and i will be using a barcode rule to keep these tapes seperate from our daily/weekly regular backups.What is the best way to do this or what are my options to copy a tape to another.
Do I do a copy option under the catalog within the GUI of the Admin Console. ? with this option are both archive tapes primary copies (can use either one to perform a restore?
Is there a way to perform 2 consecutive backups (archives) from the archive policy to 2 different tapes at the same time?
Or do I try to get client to purchase Vault in which Im not really familar with. With the vault portion of netbackup would it use like primary copy/copy 1 to create the vault tape.?. With this vaulted tape - if the orginal tape that is housed onsite was to go bad how is the vaulted tape used for a restore...?? Also with Vault - if the archive backup consited of 3 tapes will the vaulted job also be 3 tapes (probably a dumb question). not sure if vault compresses or ?
sorry for all the different querstions.. Trying to get a game plan together.
thanks BC.