Preparing an environment for partial catalog replication
The catalog image metadata, which is required to run restore operations, is stored in the relational database so a a backup of the relational database must be taken at regular intervals and replicated along with the flat file information.
- Change the configuration on the source (production) master server to ensure that the staging area for the relational database is located on the replicated storage. It can be done as follows:
Create a suitable directory on the replicated storage.
Use the following command to make this directory the staging area.
nbdb_admin - vxdbms_nb_staging <directory>
- Backup the relational database to the staging area several times per day (ideally hourly) by running the following command in a scheduled script.
nbdb_backup - online <directory>-truncate_tlog