Possible to Copy a backup tape?

[Mike_Eldridge]

I have a Dell TL-2000 and have it full of backup tapes. Currently I am not moving any tapes off site for various reasons. We would like to be able to keep a copy of the latest full backup, done every saturday, offsite for disaster recovery. My problem is that I often have to restore files from my tapes multiple times a day so it is a pain if the most current tape is not still in the drive.

Is it possible to make a copy of the tapes? that way I can have my current offsite backup yet still have instant access to my tapes that are in the library?

Thanks in advance

[Hemant_Jain · Accepted solution]

Yes, you can use duplicate backup technology available in Backup Exec. Following documents should be helpful:

http://support.veritas.com/docs/299212
http://support.veritas.com/docs/256096
http://support.veritas.com/docs/255866

Please mark it a solution, if this is useful.
Thanks

[Mike_Eldridge]

Ok this seems to be what I am looking for thanks. My only problem is that I only have one tape drive so i think I may need to duplicate to a disk backup then duplicate again to a tape. Unfortunatly my full backup takes a good 16+ hours so i cannot just run the job twice since users will be on the system changing things by the time the second one would be done.

[Ken_Putnam]

You could B2D2T via policy, then duplicate again to a second set of tapes

[Mike_Eldridge]

We have decided to do a duplicate of our tape to a B2D on our SAN. basically my reason for not removing the tapes was easy access to get files back, if my duplicates are on the SAN I can retrieve files from there and still remove the tapes to an offsite location.

[Mike_Eldridge]

Is there a way to set a time out on the duplication jobs? I had a duplication job run for 74 hours, which made all my weekend backups get missed. It was not doing anything but was still "running" and I had to kill all BEWS Services to get it to stop. I can not find anything for a time frame cutoff like there is in the regular setup for jobs.

I am running these as a linked process that happens after the tape backup finishes.


thanks