> Thanks. I am extremely serious about DR, but wanted to > clarify if the phase 1 import process was going to look > for the volume pool the tape originally came from.
You're welcome. Think about it logically--your data center doesn't exist any more, and perhaps that includes you. Somebody you never met is at a DR site in East Rutabaga with your previously off-sited tapes. What, in NetBackup, requires knowledge of pool assignments to restore? Nothing. > If phase 1 works ok, and phase 2 completes, where does the > tape get stored and in which volume? Um, work backwards on this one, too. To specify tape SW1234 to any NetBackup command, what did you have to do before that? You had to add it to NetBackup's volume inventory, didn't you? Can you do that without the tape being in a pool? Okay, now: if you tell me what pool you added it to, I'll tell you what pool it will be in before, during and after the imports. :-) BBP (Bob's Best Practices) says that, for any non-trivial import, you should create a pool that identifies the purpose and segregates the tapes. In a datacenter consolidation, server relocation or DR import, the single pool name used at the other datacenter (if you follow the BBP of using a single pool) would be a good candidate. Once the tape is imported, "IMPORTED" is the status you'll see in an available_media report. There's no substitute for experience. Just create a tape with some test data, delete it and go through the inventory/import process to see how it works. _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu