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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on May 8, 2020

Ability to specify NetBackup Copy Number on nzrestore operations

With multiple CP4D appliances, and multiple NetBackup Media Server Clusters, it would be beneficial to be able to specify the NetBackup Copy Number on nzrestore operations to match that of the most local NetBackup copy.

For instance, CP4D appliance 1 does a backup operation in Data Center A. NetBackup then makes a second copy of this backup to Data Center B. A nzrestore operation is executed on CP4D appliance 2 in Datacetner B. This nzrestore can't specify a NetBackup Copy Number and thus retrieves the default copy of the backup set from Data Center A. Being able to specify a NetBackup Copy Number onthe nzrestore operation would allow the restore to source the backup set from Data Center B.

Needed by Date May 25, 2020