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  2. NetBackup™ Troubleshooting Guide
  3. Disaster recovery
  4. Options to recover the NetBackup catalog
  5. Unfreezing the NetBackup online catalog recovery media
NetBackup™ Troubleshooting Guide

Unfreezing the NetBackup online catalog recovery media

This procedure describes how to unfreeze your removable catalog recovery media.

To unfreeze the online catalog recovery media

  1. On the primary server, for each removable media that is identified in the disaster recovery file or email, run the following command:
    bpimport -create_db_info -server server_name -id media_id
  2. On the primary server, run the following command:
    bpimport
  3. On the primary server, for each media that is identified in the disaster recovery file or email, run the following command:
    bpmedia -unfreeze -m media_id -h server_name

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Options to recover the NetBackup catalog

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