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  2. NetBackup™ Troubleshooting Guide
  3. Disaster recovery
  4. Options to recover the NetBackup catalog
  5. About recovering the NetBackup databases
NetBackup™ Troubleshooting Guide

About recovering the NetBackup databases

The NetBackup database (NBDB) is also known as the Enterprise Media Manager (EMM) database. It contains information about volumes and the robots and drives that are in NetBackup storage units. The NetBackup database also contains the NetBackup catalog images files. The images files contain the metadata that describes the backups.

You can recover the NetBackup databases independently of an entire catalog backup.

Recover from a backup

See Recovering the NetBackup database from a backup.

Recover from the staging directory

See Recovering the NetBackup database from staging.

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