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Luke_Cassar
Level 5
13 years ago

Backup remote server to remote tape drive (BackupExec 12 / 2010)

Hi All, I had a look around but could not find a simple yes/no answer to this question. Basically I have a server in a datacenter with an attached tape library that I would like to back up with B...
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  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    13 years ago

    The tape drive must be attached to the media server.  In your case, the one in the office.  If you want to use the server in the datacentre, then you need to install a full copy of BE on it and not a remote agent.

    Just remember BE can only write to locally attached devices, be it tape or disk.  The exception is when you use Linux servers with RMAL, then the device can be attached to the Linux server, but this is not applicable in your case.

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pkh
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The tape drive must be attached to the media server.  In your case, the one in the office.  If you want to use the server in the datacentre, then you need to install a full copy of BE on it and not a remote agent.

Just remember BE can only write to locally attached devices, be it tape or disk.  The exception is when you use Linux servers with RMAL, then the device can be attached to the Linux server, but this is not applicable in your case.

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Quintoni
Level 1
6 years ago

Hi there.

 

I have more or less the same question.  I have noticed this solution was applicable in 2011, and was wondering if this might have changed since.

 

Our detailed question is the following:

5 x of our critical servers will be based in the data center, with the remainder of the servers onsite. Our tape drives have to be in the data center close to the 2x critical servers with high data volume which it will backup.

 

The Backup Exec server however, needs to be onsite for other backups that also need to be performed. Thus the onsite backup server must give instruction to a Veritas client based in the data center.

Then the backup of the 2x critical servers must run in the data-center directly to the tape drive connected to a server in the data center.

 

Thus, this backup data must not leave the data center ... the backup server onsite, must only give the instruction.

 

I hope this makes sense and that you can provide us with a solution.