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muhanad_daher
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Hello,

 

i have 100 policies for different OS and i take my backup on Datadomain (VTL) and disk.

i need to duplicate the backup to another library on lto4 media.

what is the best way to that for all backup?

 

Thanks

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Marianne
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The fact that you have VTL in your environment means that you have Enterprise Disk license, right?

If so, you have hopefully configured disk storage as Advanced disk and not Basic disk?

VTL and Advanced disk can be duplicated using Storage Lifecycle Policies. (No additional licensing needed.)

The backup and duplication destination is configured in the SLP and policy STU is then replaced with the SLP. Backup and duplication destination can have different retention levels.

Duplications are automated this way and if the duplication fails for any reason, it will be retried until successful.

See chapter 14 of NBU Admin Guide I: http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC5159

 

The alternative is NetBackup Vault option (separately licensed).
See http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC5192

Or else your own bpduplicate scripts....

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Marianne
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The fact that you have VTL in your environment means that you have Enterprise Disk license, right?

If so, you have hopefully configured disk storage as Advanced disk and not Basic disk?

VTL and Advanced disk can be duplicated using Storage Lifecycle Policies. (No additional licensing needed.)

The backup and duplication destination is configured in the SLP and policy STU is then replaced with the SLP. Backup and duplication destination can have different retention levels.

Duplications are automated this way and if the duplication fails for any reason, it will be retried until successful.

See chapter 14 of NBU Admin Guide I: http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC5159

 

The alternative is NetBackup Vault option (separately licensed).
See http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC5192

Or else your own bpduplicate scripts....

muhanad_daher
Level 6
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Thank you marrianne,

you explanation for disk backup, but what about tape media backup.

Jaykullar
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What Marianne is saying is create and SLP to duplicate from your disk storage to your tape media storage unit.

muhanad_daher
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i mean from media tape to media tape

Marianne
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SLP supports tape to tape by default.

I only pointed out disk because Basic Disk is not supported with SLP.

See the section in Admin Guide I as per my previous post.

Also see NetBackup 7.5 Best Practice - Using Storage Lifecycle Policies http://symantec.com/docs/HOWTO73205

mikent
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@munhanad.daher Marianne is right, You need to configure SLP. This what i do in our environment and it is working fine. You can define rules to duplicate from disk to Tape or from tape to tape. The document Marianne refer to are excellent. ./nathan

Mark_Solutions
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Just to back up everyone else - SLPs are the way to go - unless your backups have already run in which case you will need to duplicate them manually via the Catalog section of the admin console

Also note that once you start to use SLPs that the retention periods in schedules no longer have any meansing and all retentions are determined by the SLP itself

As such you will not only need SLPs for disk to VTL and VTL to Tape but also per retention period

So you may end up with:

DISK_TO_VTL_SLP_DAILY

DISK_TO_VTL_SLP_WEEKLY

DISK_TO_VTL_SLP_MONTHLY

VTL_TO_TAPE_SLP_DAILY

VTL_TO_TAPE_SLP_WEEKLY

VTL_TO_TAPE_SLP_MONTHLY

Hope this makes sense! Once you have these set the storage destination in the policy attributes to use the Weekly SLP and then on the Daily Schedule override it to use the Daily SLP and on the Monthly Schedule override it to use the Monthly SLP

Sounds complicated but works great!

Hope this helps