You can change the media from those servers to a different (duplater) media pool and modify your duplication process to not duplicate that pool
I do that here, I duplicate 10% of our servers data and send the original tapes from the other 90% offsite. It just takes customizing the duplication selections. To duplicate the that tapes you wish to duplicate at a later time create a separate duplication job that only selects the duplater pool. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 1104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------ NOTICE: This electronic mail transmission may constitute a communication that is legally privileged. It is not intended for transmission to, or receipt by, any unauthorized persons. If you have received this electronic mail transmission in error, please delete it from your system without copying it, and notify the sender by reply e-mail, so that our address record can be corrected. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 8:22 AM To: Jeff Lightner Cc: Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Preventing duplication from using tapes On 11/5/07, Jeff Lightner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any way to mark a tape temporarily in such a way that Duplication would not select it but it would still be available when restore did? The best way would be to write the image to a disk staging storage unit - it's then available for restores as well as dupes at the same time. The next choice would to be to write the image to a different media pool and schedule a manual duplication at a different time than your standard duplications. I think either would solve your issue. The one thing you have to watch out for is that you don't unnecessarily delay that duplication - after all, it's your production data that you're protecting. Make sure that the duplications are still automatically scheduled so that nobody forgets about them. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu