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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section V. Configuring backups
  4. Protecting the NetBackup catalog
  5. Disaster recovery packages
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Disaster recovery packages

For increased security, a disaster recovery package is created during each catalog backup. The disaster recovery package stores the identity of the master server host. NetBackup requires this package to get the identity of the master server back after a disaster. Once you have recovered the host identity, you can perform the catalog recovery.

The disaster recovery package contains the following information:

  • Security certificates and private keys of the master server and the NetBackup CA (Certificate Authority)

  • Information about the hosts in the domain

  • Security settings

Note:

You must set a passphrase for the disaster recovery package for the catalog backups to be successful.

See About catalog backups.

See About disaster recovery settings.

See Setting a passphrase to encrypt disaster recovery packages.

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