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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section V. Configuring backups
  4. Protecting the NetBackup catalog
  5. Archiving the catalog and restoring from the catalog archive
  6. Catalog archiving considerations
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

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  • There is no simple method to determine to which tape the catalog has been archived. The bpcatlist -offline command is the only administrative command to determine what images have been archived.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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