can 2 copies of a tape backup be made?

[blonde]

We are thinking of storing off site (for disaster recovery) tapes of the weekly backups. I was wondering if 2 copies could be made, so that one could stay on site, incase we need to do any restores of data for users? can two copies be made of a backup. ? one to keep and one to store?
veritas 8.6
blonde

 

[4fili]

No
BackupExec 8.6 can't make copies of one media.
You must wait Bexec 9.0.
You can make your backup on disk, then make 2 copies of this...

Bye
franz

 

[blonde]

Thank-you for answering my Question, now how do you make a copy to disk.? Is it in the veritas help screen. I will look. We are trying to develope disaster recovery procedures. and I am Blonde about this...@! thanks again

 

[4fili]

Ok..
If you start the wizard where you can set up your backup devices you can design a directory on your hard drive for backup to disk.
Disaster recovery? Windows NT o 2K?

Bye
franz

 

[blonde]

We have mostly W2k Servers, and a few NT4. What I mean about disaster recovery is as a precaution, we want to take backup tapes off-site to keep for safe keeping. but sometimes I may need these tapes to do a restore of any user files that users may mess up. or delete or what ever, so I thought if we had double tapes, one could go off-site. We are in trying to develope the idr recovery, but have had some glitches in that also. I will look into the disk save. thanks blonde

 

[Mark1230]

You can use a product from NovaStor called TapeCopy.

I think you'll need 2 tape drives but it will make copies of your DLT tapes. Not sure if it works for copying other tapes but it also converts from other tape formats to DLT.

I got mine when buying Quantum tapes but you might find it at

http://www.dlttape.com

 

[blonde]

Mark,
Thank-you so much for answering this question. But we have just recently switched to the LTO drives.? Can I still use this for the LTO tapes ? Blonde

 

[Mark1230]

Not sure Blonde but I can email you a copy of it to try for yourself (only about 2.4mb Zipped) and I'm sure it's legal as there was heaps of these given away as a promo when buying Quantum DLTs

backup@bcs.org.au

 

[blonde]

Sounds good. My email is sheila_fowlkes@labor.state.ak.us
The LTO drives that we have are IBM.