NetBackup Tape Migration

Data Strategies Interchange today reported on the completion of Veritas NetBackup Tape Migration of selective migrating backup sessions from backup tapes.

The customer, a major US insurance company, had been using Veritas NetBackup for data protection. When one of its business units was acquired by a third party, the need existed to provide the new owner with backup tapes only containing data pertaining to the particular business unit.

Data Strategies was provided with all relevant LTO-2 backup tapes and a list of backup client names that pertained to the new business unit. NetBackup Tape Migration was performed, using Data Strategies’ proprietary MediaGenie Proteus Tool, and a fully automated process where first all source backup tapes were cataloged on the session/fragment level, second fragment files belonging to the desired backup clients were extracted from tape to staging disk storage, and finally written to new NetBackup format tapes.

The advantage for the client, as compared to using in-house resources, is three-fold since

1. the off-line migration process doesn’t make use of the client’s servers, tape libraries or personnel,
2. is functionally identical to NetBackup’s session clone feature (bpduplicate) and
3. offers higher throughput, advanced process control, and superior QA and QC associated with a dedicated, optimized migration software suite

Further information about DSI’s backup data migration services can be found here.