Duplicate all latest Full Backups to new tapes?

[Guest_imported]

Hi!

We run Veritas Netbackup Datacenter with 1 master server and 2 media servers.

I need to archive a full backup of all clients occationaly and would like to automate the process (without using Vault extension) but i do not know how to.

What i would like is:
1) Take all clients in all policys and duplicate the latest full backups into new tapes.
2) The new tapes should be in moved to a special tape pool wich i created or marked in some other way for easy exit from the robot library.

Please help if you have ANY suggestion at all i would be glad as i can not seem to move forward. If you have any script wich does this could i please look at it to get some ideas at least?

My very best regards,
Kent

 

[ulsj]

Hi!

I think that Veritas has done what you need.
Look in \netbackup\...\goodies
Heres a dublication script that you might find usefull.

/Ulf

 

[adjyzk]

Hi,

this is my first reply to a forum. Hope you find this of use. Below is what I use to duplicate tapes. Some site spicific stuff has been ommited. This script has been working and I have not updated it since 3.2GA, I am currently running 4.5.

#!/bin/ksh
SCRIPT_DIR=/scripts/nbu
LOG_DIR="/tmp"
DATE=`date +%m.%d.%y`

###
# Move log files out of the way
###

mv $LOG_DIR/std_missed $LOG_DIR/std_missed.$DATE 2> /dev/null
###
# Make sure we have enough scratch tapes in the silo
###

rm ${LOG_DIR}/std_image.log > /dev/null 2>&1
TOT_SCRATCH=`vmquery -b -pn scratch | tail +4 | wc -l`

##
# How many tapes do we need for the Dup
bpduplicate -v -dstunit L11000 -st FULL -hoursago 100 -PD > ${LOG_DIR}/std_image.log
TAPES_NEEDED=`awk '{ for ( i = 7; i <=NF; i++ ) print $i }' ${LOG_DIR}/std_image.log | sort | uniq | wc -l`
##
# start Dupication if we have 1/4 as many tapes as used
let TAPES_NEEDED=TAPES_NEEDED/4. Best guess
if [ $TAPES_NEEDED -gt TOT_SCRATCH ]
then
echo &quot;***** WARNING ************&quot; > ${LOG_DIR}/std_duperr$DATE.log
echo &quot;Not enough scratch tapes to do duplication&quot; >> ${LOG_DIR}/std_duperr$DATE.log
echo &quot;Number of tapes required $TAPES_NEEDED is less than scratch avaible $TOT_SCRATCH&quot; >> ${LOG_DIR}/std_duperr$DATE.log
echo &quot;Duplication not done on `date +%D`&quot; >> ${LOG_DIR}/std_duperr$DATE.log
echo &quot;****************************\n&quot; >> ${LOG_DIR}/std_duperr$DATE.log
cat ${LOG_DIR}/std_duperr$DATE.log | mailx -s &quot;NetBackup Dupliction Error&quot; root
else
START_TIME=&quot;Started `date`&quot;
bpduplicate -v -dstunit L11000 -st FULL -ct Standard -hoursago 100 -L $LOG_DIR/actual_std_$DATE.log -dp NB_duplicates > $LOG_DIR/std_duperr$DATE.log 2>&1
END_TIME=&quot;Finished `date`&quot;
echo &quot;$START_TIME\n$END_TIME&quot; |mailx -s &quot;Netbackup Duplication for Unix completed&quot; root
fi

###
# Find out if any dups went bad and Notify someone
###

awk '{if ($4 ~ /Duplicate/ && $9 ~ /failed,/) print $8}' actual_std_$DATE.log > $LOG_DIR/std_missed
if [ -s $LOG_DIR/std_missed ]
then
cat $LOG_DIR/std_missed | mailx -s &quot;No failed Unix Duplications&quot; root
else
cat $LOG_DIR/std_missed | mailx -s &quot;These Unix Backup IDs failed&quot; root
fi


I run two seperate threads one for my NT and one for my UNIX boxes

 

[sentmemail]

how do i automatic the duplication of tapes on windows platform ?
thanks

 

[defstar]

You can script this out using the bpduplicate command. Locate this command in the SAG or the \NetBackup\bin subdir.

Once you have written the script, you can place it in a batch file that will force it to execute after the job has completed.

The file name will be:

bpend_notify.bat

The file must be created in:

<install_path>\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin.

If NBU sees this file in its bin subdir , it will execute the file. Create the file and place your script inside of it.

Also-

You can create:

bpstart_notify.bat

Create this in the same subdir. This batch file executes before a job starts. This works great for taking databases down to perform a flat file backup!

 

[sentmemail]

how does the command look like if i want to append every day's backup to 5 tapes that is in another pool ?

 

[defstar]

What????

 

[sentmemail]

sorry, i am new to this. Is it possible to do it?

 

[defstar]

Is it possible to do what? I do not understand what you are asking. Please explain.

 

[sentmemail]

i have a daily backup job that writes to 3 tapes everyday, is it possible to duplicate these 3 tapes to another 3 tapes on that is in a differnet volume pool?
if yes, how to do it?
thanks