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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Troubleshooting
  4. Troubleshooting MSDP operational issues
  5. Troubleshooting MSDP catalog backup
Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Troubleshooting MSDP catalog backup

The following subsections provide information about MSDP catalog backup and recovery.

Catalog backup

Table: MSDP drcontrol codes and messages describes error messages that may occur when you create or update a catalog backup policy. The messages are displayed in the shell window in which you ran the drcontrol utility. The utility also writes the messages to its log file.

Table: MSDP drcontrol codes and messages

Code or message

Description

1

Fatal error in an operating system or deduplication command that the drcontrol utility calls.

110

The command cannot find the necessary NetBackup configuration information.

140

The user who invoked the command does not have administrator privileges.

144

A command option or argument is required.

226

The policy name that you specified already exists.

227

This error code is passed from the NetBackup bplist command. The MSDP catalog backup policy you specified does not exist or no backups exist for the given policy name.

255

Fatal error in the drcontrol utility.

For more information about status codes and error messages, see the following:

  • The Troubleshooter in the NetBackup Administration Console.

  • The NetBackup Status Codes Reference Guide available through the following webpage:

    http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

Catalog recovery from a shadow copy

If NetBackup detects corruption in the MSDP catalog, the Deduplication Manager recovers the catalog automatically from the most recent shadow copy. That recovery process also plays a transaction log so that the recovered MSDP catalog is current.

Although the shadow copy recovery process is automatic, a recovery procedure is available if you need to recover from a shadow copy manually.

See Restoring the MSDP catalog from a shadow copy.

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