How to Auto Vault after backup/duplication jobs have finished
Updated: 15 Dec 2011 | 2 comments
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Hi,
My current setup is backup to disk and then duplicate from disk to tapes. After all duplication jobs are finished, we manually start the Vault policy to do a catalog backup and eject the tapes for Iron mountain.
Duplication happens through the staging schedule of Storage Unit and NOT through the Vault policy
What I would like to do is, in the morning Vault policy to start automatically once the duplication jobs are finished. We do not have a set time by which all duplication jobs are finished as different backups every night
thanks
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Storage Life cycle policies
You need to use Storage life cycle policies. With the help of SLP's you will be able to initiate the duplication job once the job gets completed sucessfully.
No way to do that exactly the way you want
The NetBackup scheduler has no built-in function to trigger subsequent jobs. The policies will just run at specific times.
The Storage Lifecycle Policy will duplicate almost immediately after the backup jobs complete, but it has no way to know when other duplications are complete, so it would not know if it was the last duplication or not.
If you use Vault for your duplications instead of SLP's, you would lose the immediate duplication to tape, which may cause disk storage problems if you are limited in your disk staging unit. However, you could run multiple Vault jobs at different points during the night to duplicate data to tape multiple times, and then schedule a separate Vault profile that skips the duplication step, but eject tapes and run reports at that time.
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