Recovering the MSDP catalog manually
Perform the following steps to recover the MSDP catalog manually:
Table: Automated MSDP catalog recovery
Step | Task | Description |
|---|---|---|
1 | Ensure that the pre-requisites are met. | |
2 | Log on to the MSDP storage server that you want to recover | The MSDP catalog recovery steps require NetBackup commands, MSDP commands, and operating system commands. Open a command or shell window on the NetBackup MSDP storage server to run the required NetBackup, MSDP, and operating system commands for recovery. |
3 | Synchronize the date and time of the NetBackup primary server and the MSDP storage server. | See Synchronizing the date and time of the NetBackup primary server and the MSDP storage server . |
4 | Determine the catalog backup from which to recover. | |
5 | Verify the catalog backup files. | |
6 | Initialize MSDP for the catalog recovery. | |
7 | Restore an MSDP catalog backup to the catalog shadow directory. | See Restoring an MSDP catalog backup to the catalog shadow directory. |
8 | Recover the MSDP catalog from a shadow copy. | |
9 | Synchronize the MSDP catalog with the NetBackup catalog. | See Synchronize the MSDP catalog with the NetBackup catalog. |
10 | Set the NetBackup Deduplication Engine to refuse jobs. | See Setting the NetBackup Deduplication Engine to refuse jobs. |
11 | Check MSDP data integrity manually. | |
12 | Process the MSDP transaction queue manually. | |
13 | Set the NetBackup Deduplication Engine to accept jobs. | See Setting the NetBackup Deduplication Engine to accept jobs. |