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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section V. Configuring backups
  4. Synthetic backups
  5. Using the multiple copy synthetic backups method
  6. Multiple copy synthetic backups configuration examples
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Multiple copy synthetic backups configuration examples

The following multiple copy synthetic configuration example takes advantage of default values to produce the second synthetic copy.

TARGET_STU=disk_stu

The default source of copy 2 and the default destination copy 2.

In this example, the second copy targets a tape library (tape_stu). The configuration specifies a volume pool (Synthetics) for the target copy.

The copy number for the multiple copy synthetic backup is copy 3. If copy 3 is unavailable, SOURCE_COPY_FALLBACK indicates that copy 3 can be produced using the primary copy.

If copy 3 fails, only copy 3 fails and not the job of the primary copy.

TARGET_STU=tape_stu
VOLUME_POOL=Synthetics
SOURCE_COPY_FALLBACK=PRIMARY
COPY=3
ENABLED=YES
FAIL_MODE=ONE

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