Cloning in parallel 1

[work7x24]

Does anyone know a way that I can clone all volumes that were written to during a nightly backup cycle concurrently? My clones take FOREVER!

 

[VicMcD]

See thread 480-28797 which deals with this very question

 

[JimTaylor]

New User: How do I find thread 480-28797? which deals with this very question

 

[VicMcD]

Sorry I thought that you could search by thread number. The title you are looking for is Scheduling Cloning

 

[johnj2k]

Check out

http://www.drenpress.com/extreme_cloning.html

You have to pay to get the scripts, but it may be worth it for you.

 

[cfowler]

Carefull with this one! I recently had the same question and found a great article from "networkerjournal.com". When cloning begins automatically after your group has completed it's saves, it "de-streams" the info to the clones thus the great amount of time required for cloning. However, the article I found details (have to pay for a subscription to receive the actual info) a method that will ignore the de-streaming and perform (basically) a tape to tape copy. However, using this method, Networker does NOT write any info to the indexes. By allowing Networker to "naturally" clone, you get the index info required to perform a disaster recovery later on, if needed.

Good luck,

cfowler