Catalog recovery with secure communications
When you restore NetBackup 8.1 after a disaster, you must recover the host identity of any master servers. The host identity includes information such as certificate details and security settings. The master server cannot communicate with media servers and clients in the new NetBackup instance until the earlier host identity has been recovered.
The host identity resides in a disaster recovery package which is created during each catalog backup. Because the disaster recovery package contains sensitive data such as security certificates and security settings, it is encrypted with a passphrase. You must provide the passphrease when you install NetBackup in disaster recovery mode after a disaster. This passphrase is not recovered during a restore of the disaster recovery package or during catalog recovery.
You must set the passphrase again in the new NetBackup instance. To set a passphrase, use the Security Management > Global Security Settings > Disaster Recovery tab in the NetBackup Administration Console. If the disaster recovery package passphrase is not set in the new instance, catalog backups will fail. This is also applicable for upgrades to NetBackup 8.1. To avoid catalog backup failures, set the disaster recovery package passphrase immediately after the upgrade.