Catalogs backup question

[Leoooooo]

Hello all,

I have a Netbackup 7.6 running on a Windows 2008, my tape library is attached to the storage and run backups only of it.

I have a weekly catalog backup running from my D$ to my F$ drives and everything is running fine, I just wanted to besides my catalog backup to F$ drive also to copy to a tape, rather to use the same tape every week.

How can I do it?

Thank you in advance.

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

Configure Staging schedule in the Storage Unit for your policy. 

I have mentioned Disk Staging in the post that you marked as Solution over here:

 Doubts about catalog 

I have also said in that post that once a week is not enough.

If you only have one tape in CatalogBackup pool, only one tape will be used for duplication.
Double check retention level in the policy - NBU will append to tape (similar to new image written on disk).

PLEASE download the manual that I have referred you to and start reading!

[RamNagalla · Accepted solution]

mulitple ways

1) you can configure another catalog backup to tape ( if your catalog is large i dont recomment it)

2) configure the duplication for the catalog backup that you took to F drive

this duplication you can configure in multiple ways..

if F is configured as basic disk

1)  DSSU

2) inline tape copy

3) vault

if it other than basic disk

you can also use SLP to do the duplications.. 

[Leoooooo]

I have set up the staging schedule and everything ran really fine :) Thank you!

But, it used two tapes and I would like to use only one tape (the odd thing was that the second used tape remained on scratch volume pool, is it normal?)

How do I do to this job use only one tape? (the one that I have already assigned for this)

Here are some configuration:

C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpstulist -label Catalog_Backaup -U -g -verbose
<2>bpstulist: INITIATING: version NetBackup 7.6 created: 2013111314

Label:                Catalog_Backaup
Storage Unit Type:    Disk
Storage Unit Subtype: Basic (1)
Host Connection:      reedmgr005.reed.co.uk
Concurrent Jobs:      1
On Demand Only:       yes
Max MPX:              1
Path:                 "F:\Catalog_Backup"
Max Fragment Size:    524288 MB
Stage data:           yes
Block Sharing:        no
High Water Mark:      98
Low Water Mark:       80
Ok On Root:           no
__GROUPS__
<2>bpstulist: EXIT status = 0

C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>nbdevquery -listdp -stype BasicDisk -U -dp Catalog_Backaup
Disk Pool Name   : Catalog_Backaup
Disk Pool Id     : INValid
Disk Type        : BasicDisk
Status           : UP
Flag             : Patchwork
Flag             : SingleStorageServer
Flag             : AdminUp
Flag             : InternalUp
Flag             : SpanImages
Flag             : BasicStaging
Flag             : FragmentImages
Flag             : CatalogBackup
Flag             : Cpr
Flag             : RandomWrites
Flag             : FT-Transfer
Raw Size (GB)    : 100.00
Usable Size (GB) : 100.00
Num Volumes      : 1
High Watermark   : 98
Low Watermark    : 80
Max IO Streams   : -1
Comment          : Generic disk group
Storage Server   : reedmgr005.reed.co.uk (UP)