About advanced duplication

Advanced duplication lets you specify more than one duplication rule. Vault determines which media server wrote each backup image and then applies the duplication rule corresponding to that media server to that image. In this context, the media server does not have any effect other than to identify which rule to apply to each image.

Note:

Alternate read servers and multiple media servers apply to NetBackup Enterprise Server only.

If a duplication rule does not specify an alternate read server, the media server that originally wrote the backup image is used to read the original backup image during the duplication process.

Use advanced configuration only if you need to control exactly how to assign the backup images to be duplicated.

The following statements may help you understand why you should use advanced configuration:

Note:

You do not need to configure advanced options if your profile duplicates images backed up by a single media server.

Note:

You do not need to configure advanced options if your profile duplicates images backed up by a single media server.

To avoid sending data over the network, do the following: