[Veritas-bu] Duplicating using bpduplicate gives a smaller size

This is actually not unusual. Because of fragmentation and multiplexing, an image might shrink just a little bit after duplication. You should be okay but Darren is right for testing. Do some restores from that copy to just make sure it is okay. You can use the bpchangeprimary command to

[Veritas-bu] Duplicating using bpduplicate gives a smaller size

Hi Darren, Thanks for the replay I am using the command bpimagelist -L -backupid image_id. The image has been duplicated 2 times, the last one is for part of the conversion to LTO4. When I did the command I could see the in the field Kilobytes there is the size. For my case copy 1 and copy 2

Re: [Veritas-bu] Duplicating using bpduplicate gives a smaller size

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 05:23:39AM -0400, Tamimi wrote: Hi All, I converted LTO1 tapes to LTO4 tapes using bpduplicate. LTO1 tape read with LTO2 tape drives (compressed) and write to LTO4 tape drives (compressed). The result were some of the images have the same size and some have smaller

[Veritas-bu] Duplicating using bpduplicate gives a smaller size

Hi All, I converted LTO1 tapes to LTO4 tapes using bpduplicate. LTO1 tape read with LTO2 tape drives (compressed) and write to LTO4 tape drives (compressed). The result were some of the images have the same size and some have smaller size. We are using Netbackup Enterprise Server version