Julie,

We have 3 people on our NBU team and we sent it to everyone's work address as well as their personal. This way there's a better chance that one of us will be around in the event of a disaster. This obviously depends on the extremety of the disaster, but that's how we are handling it.

Also, what type of home e-mail account are you sending it to? I have mine sent to a Yahoo! account and just downloaded the file to my desktop w/out any problem of file conversion. Which browser do you use? I use Firefox and it works like a dream!

As for the actual restore process in NBU6.0, we have yet to test it, but it's on our long list of things to do. Right now making sure every client and all of it's streams are running is our top priority!

Lance

Thanks for your input.

I have a local e-mail account through my cable company. I thought I was saving it without problem from my home e-mail. But I actually did a live test yesterday and Netbackup wouldn't read it. If I used the one I have Netbackup writing to the server, it works fine. The one from the e-mail doesn't work. I use Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2.

In addition to the e-mail option, we write the DR file to a server that is in our DR site. That way, it is ready in the event of a disaster. No need to worry about who is available.

AK

Julie,

You need to read the file that is attached to the email to identify where the DR file was backup to (i.e. which media ID) and do "bpimport -drfile -drfile_dest " before continuing the normal catalog recovery.

You can find the details in the "Recovering the Catalog WITHOUT DR file" section of the following document:
http://support.veritas.com/docs/279295

The file that is attached to the disaster recovery e-mail is the same as the file that I have saved to the network. It's just when I detach it from my e-mail the file type gets changed and Netbackup doesn't like it.

I don't want to have to recover with out the file at all if I can help it. I have found in my testing that I just need to be real careful about how the file from the e-mail gets saved.

We save the file to a server in our DR facility, as well as email it to our offsite tape storage vendor.

 There is also this technote: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/283364.htm.

DOCUMENTATION: How to re-create the DRFile (the catalog disaster recovery file) when recovery from a hot (online) catalog backup is necessary and this file is not available.

I set up the parent_end_notify script to have an 'if' statement that when the Hot_Catalog_Backup finishes it sends it via rdist ( aix - remote distribution software) to a directory I created on the master I have in our DR site. 
The DR master also sends its file to my prod site.
We also get it via email and on my BlackBerry.