Doubts about catalog
Hello all,
I have some problems with my nbu 7.6 catalogs. It runs on a 2008 server. The catalogs are based on my dedicated E$ drive and I want to have a copy of this drive, that will be my dedicated F$ drive. I'm reading so many things about catalogs on tapes and I'm not sure that we are talking about the same thing as I've never not been asked about my catalog location, even less for a tape copy of it, anyway, we don't intend to tape backup the catalogs, the only thing I had to do was to change the catalogs location from my C$ to my E$ that was easy and is working fine.
So I just want to backup my catalogs from one drive to another, when I try to create a policy for this it fails with error 213, saying the Storage units are not available - which is odd as I have many scratch tapes available, I have drives available, and the bottom line is: I don't even want to use a drive nor a tape for this task, so what's going on here?
Thank you very much!
A new backup will not replace the previous backup - it will write a new backup each time a backup is done.
So, a new DR-file and new IMG and INFO files will be written for each backup.
I doubt that you have enough space on your F-drive to write a backup every week and keep that forever!As I've said before - backups to DSU works the same way as tape.
Only when previous backups have expired can existing backups be overwritten.
Please read up on Disk Staging in Admin Guide I to stage catalog backups to tape.You are also missing a FULL schedule in the policy.
A 'Cummulative Incr' will backup everything that has changed since the last Full backup in this policy.A catalog backup once a week is not enough - if you are doing backups every day, you need to take a Catalog backup every day.
Infinity retention is way too much - what good will catalog backup be even within a month from now?
For DR, you need the latest Full and last Cummulative incremental along with DR-files.