Catalog Archive Question
We are investigating the use of Catalog Archiving to reduce the footprint of our main NetBackup catalog (Currently ~1.1TB).
So my questions for those of you who use Catalog Archiving are...
1. In https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000044187 it says to perform the catalog archive with NBU in an inactive state (no backups running) Is this actually a requirement? we have jobs that run all day every day so actually pulling a regular time that this can run would be difficult if it can't run on an active environment.
2. How are image clean up jobs effected? Will it clean an image that expires out of the archived data?
The reason I ask is that we have backups that have an infinate retention and if we run the "bpcatlist -client all -before-months 48 | bpcatarc | bpcatrm" the backup will also have to have the retention of the longest archived imade so that it is not cleaned up before the backup expires. So if I have to mark it as infinate I want to make sure that the images that have less than infinate retention will be cleared when their expire time arrives. My theory is that it would clean up the header info in the catalog but the data (.f files) that is in the catalog archive backup will remain until the archive backup expires.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
If you are archiving older images only and are sure there are no dups to occur on them then you should be fine. If you are doing the entire images then you don't want jobs running.