Alternative B: each robot as a Vault robot
In a multi-robot environment, configure each backup robot to be a Vault robot. Each robot duplicates or ejects only backup images that were originally written to it.
You can do so in several ways, as follows:
Use a NetBackup policy to create multiple original backups, assigning the copy to be vaulted to an off-site volume pool in any of the robots. For each robot, configure one vault and one profile that ejects the backups that were assigned to the off-site volume pool in that robot. Only backups on media in the off-site volume pools that are specified on the Eject tab and that meet the rest of the criteria specified in the profile are ejected.
Use Vault to duplicate images. On the Choose Backups tab of the Profile dialog box, specify the robot to which the profile belongs in the field. This limits the profile so that it duplicates only backup images that have their primary copy on media in this robot. Specify half of the available drives in the robot as read drives so that an equal number of read and write drives are available. Configure one such vault and profile for each robot.
To avoid sending duplication data over the network, specify the media server of the destination storage unit as the Alternate Read Server.
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Alternate read servers apply to NetBackup Enterprise Server only.
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The destination storage unit must have at least two drives if that robot is used for both read and write functions.
These methods work well with backup policies that use storage unit. Using Vault to duplicate images also works well with storage unit groups if you make one copy only.
This configuration avoids resource contention when one profile attempts to duplicate images in multiple robots.