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perez_cmz
Level 6
11 years ago

Using bpduplicate to duplicate image from tape to tape

I ran the following command ... bpduplicate -backupid ABC.company.com_1389481262 -dstunit US_LT05 -rl 12 -dp US_DUP -cn 4 -dcn 3 and received the following in return ... Duplicate started Tue 1...
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  • mph999's avatar
    mph999
    11 years ago

    Until SLP has completed making all the copies, you cannot duplicate manually.

    The basic command to check is :

    nbstlutil stlilist

    Status of 1 / 2 means  not started / in process

    Status of 3 means complete

    So, anything 'not equal' to 3 cannot be duplicated.

    You can cancel an image (nbstlutil cancel -backupid <backupid> )

    Issues with this:

    1.  If the 'backup' copy has past it's try-to-keep time it will expire instantly.  It is difficult to stop this (and it cannot be stopped other than possibly with SQL commands).  The reason I say 'possibly' is that I've never done it with the later versions of NBU, only once at 6.5.x

    2.  Once canceled, SLP will never pickup that image again

    Martin

RonCaplinger's avatar
RonCaplinger
Level 6
11 years ago

Provided you are SURE the image hasn't reached its expiration, just cancel the processing for the SLP, it's that fastest and easiest way:

nbstlutil cancel -backupid ABC.company.com_1389481262

 

Then you should be able to duplicate the image the same way you tried before.

 

The alternative is to use nbstlutil and nbstl to find the version of the SLP and modify it.  I tried to explain how to do that here, but I gave up typing it all out because the process doesn't translate well in this forum.  Cancelling the SLP processing for that image is the easiest.