About the Catalog Backup Wizard
The NetBackup catalog contains information about your configuration and the locations of backed up files and directories. If a disk fails and your catalog is lost, a catalog backup makes it easy to restore your data and resume your backup schedule.
Therefore, you must configure a catalog backup policy before any data gets backed up.
This wizard lets you create a policy for an online, hot catalog backup. Online, hot catalog backups can back up the catalog while normal client backups are in progress.
A catalog backup policy lets you specify the following information:
The destinations for the catalog backup
A backup destination can be any configured storage device. For additional disaster recovery protection, you can specify a second location for your catalog backup.
Note:
Although NetBackup supports catalog backup to disk, Veritas recommends that you back up the catalog to a removable media that gets stored off-site.
The disaster recovery passphrase. More information about the passphrase is available. See the NetBackup Troubleshooting Guide.
When the catalog backup occurs
The location of the disaster recovery file that is needed to recover from the catalog backup
Use the following guidelines to configure a catalog backup:
Configure a catalog backup policy before any other files or data are backed up.
For clustered systems, configure the catalog backup policy from the active node.
For complete details about catalog backups, see the chapter "Protecting the NetBackup catalog" in the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.
For instructions on how to configure a catalog backup in clustered environments, see the NetBackup Clustered Master Server Administrator's Guide.