Re: Veritas NetBackup v4.5 question

From: Gary L. Burnore (gburnore_at_databasix.com)
Date: 01/15/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:46:52 -0500

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:07:29 -0500, Dragan Cvetkovic <me@privacy.net>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>maybe a trivial question but I can't find the answer to that one in the
>documentation: Does Veritas NetBackup Business Server v4.5 support multiple
>tape backups of a single file in a robot configuration? I.e. we have a Sun
>L8 robot with DLT drive inside (sorry, I don't know the exact terminology)
>and a 100GB file that doesn't fit onto a single 40GB DLT. Would the
>NetBackup automatically pull the new tape and continue the backup of the
>file or will it report an error and abort?

It will mount another available tape and continue where it left off.
>
>Documentation of NetBackup mentions parallel and multiplexed backups, but
>nothing about the cases like this. Unless this is so obvious and standard
>feature not even worth mentioning.

Of course, duplexing would require multiple drives.

>So, would the above work?
>
>Thanks and bye, Dragan 

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