Dear all,
some time ago I was requested to make inbetween backups of some filesystems (on our NAS over NDMP) .
This differed slightly from the way we normally make our NAS-backups in terms of retention and (smaller) size of the backup itself, so it caused no problems.
After having made the first backup, I created a safetycopy and had a look to see if this could be done automatically.
I found out that, contrary to making Windows-based backups from a SAN, it is not possible to have copies being made parallel to the primary backup as part of the policy. Since it only concerned 3 backups, it is not that much of a problem, so I continued copying manually.
If I now have a look at the BAR-interface (Preview required media ) for restoring one of these backups,
I only see the primary media listed on which the backup was initially made, not the copy.
How can I make sure that, when necessary, I can also restore from the copy-tape(s) ?
Continuing, I also want to make copies of old SAN-backups (MS-Windows based), that are currently on LTO-2 tapes before our environment (NAS+Library with drives) will be upgraded and the drives in the new library are too new/modern to read the LTO-2 tapes.
In fact the same question to end with:
How can I make sure that, when necessary, I can also restore from the copy-tape(s) ?
Thank in advance for your advice !
Kind regards,
Jaap Hartog