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Leoooooo's avatar
Leoooooo
Level 4
10 years ago

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 dedicat...
  • Marianne's avatar
    10 years ago

    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.