What you're going to want to do is use NetBackup to duplicate only the backup IMAGES you want to keep. You can deselect "preserve multiplexing" so that you can run per-client batches and combine all single-client backup images onto distinct tapes. Make sure you have the maximum number of backup image copies set appropriately before you start. Then you can expire the original backup images. If there was only one copy of each backup image, you will be expiring copy1 and copy2 will automatically be promoted to the primary copy (restores are always read from the primary copy).
HTH, Neil On Jan 30, 2013, at 1:42 PM, Wayne T Smith <wtsm...@maine.edu> wrote: > To run a little further with what Rusty wrote, it appears that *any* tape you > have used might contain data from the customers of interest. Backup images > have probably been expiring for years. > > So if you are required to obliterate their data, not just expire it, you'll > need to move everyone's current data elsewhere and then obliterate/destroy > all of the tapes. As Rusty discussed, "elsewhere" may vary on what you want > to do going forward. I suppose similar schemes could be devised for other > media types. > > Cheers, Wayne > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:40 AM, John Collins <jhn.coll...@yahoo.com> wrote, > in part: > For the past 10 years we have been running 5 backup policies in a hosting > environment. We host data for about 100 different clients. We have 5 main > policies: Exchange, File Shares, Databases, VMWare, and Windows. We use > multiplexing and multistreaming, so that we have a situation where we have > accumulated thousands of backup tapes with the data of various customers > multiplexed, or co-mingled together. > > Some of our customers would like us to dispose of their data--and others want > us to keep it. > > Does anyone have any ideas about how to go about resolving this dilemma? Can > we de-multiplex the data somehow? Any help or ideas is greatly appreciated. > The verion of Netbackup has ranged from 4 to 6.5. > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
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