Question on Catalog backups on tape
Updated: 21 May 2010 | 3 comments
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Netbackup 6.5.3.1 – Hot Catalog
If I take a catalog backup on Tuesday Morning – I get a tape with the catalog backup- I remove and send it off site with the tapes.
If I take a catalog backup Saturday Morning, and again Sunday Morning, and again Monday morning
What do I end up with on the catalog tape?
3 backups on the same tape? How do I recover with that?
Or does each hot catalog backup overwrite from the start of the tape so I only have 1 catalog on a tape?
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only the latest
If the same tape is used for catalog backup, when you try to restore, it will allow you to restore from the latest catalog backup only.
Restoring of catalog backup does not allow you to restore from a backup prior to most recent backup.
Hope this answers your question
Hot Catalog backups on tape
If you are using the Hot Catalog backups, then you can keep multiple copies of the catalog on a tape or disk location. The new Hot Catalog backup feature allows you to take Full and Incremental Catalog backups. Then using the Catalog Restore Wizard you can select from the available catalog backups to do a restore from.
If you have the NetBackup Vault product, then you can setup a vault policy to duplicate the vault job to another tape and send that tape offsite instead of sending your original catalog backup offsite.
With the Offline Catalog backup, each time the job is run the tape or disk location is overwritten with the new job so you have only the last catalog backup.
- Joe "Saving the bits each and every day"
thanks Joe
I kind of thought that, but was not 100% sure.
Scorpy you can recovery from any catalog backup - it does not have to be the most recent.
So long as you have the backup (tape or disk) you can do the recovery.
But if you use disk and overwrite it as Joe says then you only have the most recent.
As I send my catalog backups offsite with my backup tapes I have many to chose from ( incase the most recent tape goes bad...knock on wood that it does not.)
I don't have to know how to spell....I work on Unix.
NetBackup 7.0.1 - AIX & Windows
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