Hi all
Datacentre 1:
1x BE2010 (x64) - CASO installed
1x Quantum DXi 6500 OST appliance
Datacentre 2:
1x BE2010 (x64) - MMS
1x Quantum DXi 6500 OST appliance
1x HP 8-slot LTO4 autoloader (SAS)
I'm trying to implement what i thought was a disk-to-disk-to-tape backup setup, but might actually be disk-to-disk-to-disk-to-tape :)
I am using BE2010 to back up a number of things from vmware vsphere to simple windows servers and exchange\sql. Backups working fine.
I'm using an OST disk-based backup device (Quantum DXi 6500) and, after no inconsiderable amount of messing, is sort of working as expected.
I have two datacentres that I am duplicating the backup sets between, each DC has a DXi 6500 device and a BE 2010 media server. Duplication between the OST devices works fine.
I have the CASO option installed on BE server in DC1, and the DC2 media server reports in fine as a managed media server.
So my policies back up, for example, our vmware estate off the SANs, and plonk them on the DXi device. Then a duplicate template kicks in and performs OST optimised duplication to the DXi device in datacentre 2. Works fine and is actually impressively quick over a dedicated 30Mbps line.
What I would like to do now that those backup sets are in DC2 is to duplicate them again to tape locally in DC2. DC2 has a BE2010 media server, connected to the replica DXi device, and also has an HP autoloader directly attached via SAS. I would like to make the DC2 BE media server read the replicated media sets from Quantum DXi, and duplicate to tape in DC2.
I have found that CASO would 'load balance' my DC1 jobs without asking, so the other day i found BE MMS in DC2 trying to back up vmware in DC1 even though no connectivity to DC1 SAN! Yes was running incredibly slow over the WAN in nbd mode. So i 'fixed' that by restricting the selection lists to only run on the media server in DC1 - but i can already see that I think i need that selection list to be available to MMS in DC2 so it can duplciate to tape?
Enough waffling, the direct question i guess is:
Can anybody advise on configuration to achieve a duplicate to tape job on another site? The obvious answer is to add another duplicate backup sets template to the relevant policy (using the previous duplicate template as the source for the second duplicate template?) but when creating this template i can't see how to force the job to run on a particular media server?
I have of course tried the above, but the second duplicate job which should go to tape just sits in a 'Ready' state (i told the template to use the tape device in DC2 but job doesn't start).
All the Quantum DXi LSUs are 'shared' in backup exec so both media severs can access them.
Any thoughts\comments would be great.
Thanks.
Dave