Catalog archiving considerations
Consider the following items before catalog archiving:
Perform catalog archiving operations when NetBackup is in an inactive state (no jobs are running).
Catalog archiving modifies existing catalog images. As a result, it should never be run when the catalog file system is 100% full.
To ensure that catalog backup images are not on the same tapes as user backups, create a separate media pool for catalog archives.
You may find it useful to set up and then designate, a special retention level for catalog archive images.
To specify retention levels, go to Host Properties > Master Server > Retention Periods.
Additional time is required to mount the tape and perform the restore of archived .f files.
There is no simple method to determine to which tape the catalog has been archived. The bpcatlist -offline command is the only administrative command to determine what images have been archived. This command does not list what tape was used for the archive. As a result, exercise caution to ensure that the tapes used for catalog archiving are available for restoring the archived catalog images. Either create a separate volume pool to use exclusively for catalog archives or find a method to label the tape as a catalog archive tape.
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