Creating a catalog archiving policy
The catalog archiving feature requires the presence of a policy named catarc before the catalog archiving commands can run properly. The policy can be reused for catalog archiving.
To create a catalog archiving policy
- Create a new policy and name it catarc. The catarc policy waits until bpcatarc can activate it. Users do not run this policy. Instead, bpcatarc activates this special policy to perform a catalog backup job, then deactivates the policy after the job is done.
- In the Attributes policy tab, set the Policy type to Standard or MS-Windows, according to the platform of the primary server.
- In the Attributes policy tab, deactivate the catalog archive policy by clearing the Go into effect at field.
- Select the Schedules tab and click New to create a schedule.
In the Attributes schedule tab, the Name of the schedule is not restricted, but the Type of backup must be User Backup.
- Select a Retention for the catalog archive. Set the retention level for a time at least as long as the longest retention period of the backups being archived. Data can be lost if the retention level of the catalog archive is not long enough.
You may find it useful to set up, and then designate a special retention level for catalog archive images.
- Select the Start Window tab and define a schedule for the catarc policy.
The schedule must include in its window the time when the bpcatarc command is run. If the bpcatarc command is run outside of the schedule, the operation fails.
- Click OK to save the schedule.
- On the Clients tab, enter the name of the primary server as it appears on the NetBackup servers list.
- On the Backup Selections tab, browse to the directory where catalog backup images are placed:
On Windows: install_path\NetBackup\db\images
On UNIX: /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images
- Save the policy.