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  2. NetBackup™ Troubleshooting Guide
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  4. Options to recover the NetBackup catalog
  5. About NetBackup catalog recovery and symbolic links
NetBackup™ Troubleshooting Guide

About NetBackup catalog recovery and symbolic links

When you recover the NetBackup catalog, you must account for any symbolic links in the NetBackup catalog directory structure, as follows:

db/images directory

If the NetBackup db/images directory resides on the storage that is the target of a symbolic link, that symbolic link must exist in the recovery environment. The symbolic link also must have the same target in the recovery environment.

db/images/client directories

If any of the client subdirectories under the db/images directory are symbolic links, they also must exist in the recovery environment. The symbolic links also must have the same targets in the recovery environment.

Catalog recovery of clustered primary server

To recover the NetBackup catalog from a clustered primary server to a single primary server at a disaster recovery site, you must create the following symbolic links on the recovery host before you recover the catalog:

/usr/openv/netbackup/db  ->  /opt/VRTSnbu/netbackup/db
/usr/openv/db/staging    ->  /opt/VRTSnbu/db/staging

On Solaris systems only, you also must create the following symbolic links before you recover the catalog:

/usr/openv   ->   /opt/openv

If the symbolic links and their targets do not exist, catalog recovery fails.

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