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?

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.

So, would the above work?

Thanks and bye, Dragan

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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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Gary L. Burnore <gburnore@databasix.com> writes:

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

>> 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.

Perfect. Thanks Gary

Bye, Dragan

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