Catalog contains many jobs and tapes

[Scott_Johnson_3]

Hi,

I apologize in advance if this is a stupid question.

Perhaps someone can explain how the contents of a catalog are determined.

I have a single catalog that contains 61 jobs, spaning 15 tapes over a period of 16 days. While on the other hand, I have catalolgs that only contain span one tape and the 4 jobs written to that tape over a period of two days.

So, what determines when BE starts up a new catalog?

Thanks!!

Scott

[Amruta_Bhide]

Hello,
the size of the backups depends on the size of the backup sets and the number of tapes employed.
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You can refer to the following Article as an additional Information:
How to tell which catalog file is associated with a particular tape
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/190672.htm
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Hope this helps you.
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Additional Information :
For information on the recent VERITAS Backup Exec security vulnerabilities, including links to the downloads for the necessary hotfixes, please refer to the following document:
Patch summary for Security Advisories VX05-001, VX05-002, VX05-003, VX05-005, VX05-006, VX05-007

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/277429.htm
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Thanks.

[Scott_Johnson_3]

I realized that each job was appending to a tape containing the previous job so it looks like one continuous job.