Best practice for Netbackup Applaince storage config for the Catalog

[NavGee]

Configuring the Storage aspect for Netbackup catalog backup on netbackup appliance would like to follow best practice.

What is recommend do you use the catalog parition, create a storage pool for advanced disk and go from there. I believe you will require advanced disk license key.

OR

Just use the normal deduplication pool for the catalog backup.

Regards

[SymTerry · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Ideally you will want to backup your catalog to tape. This way the tape can be restored at a DR site. If your going to use disk, basic disk or advanced disk pools are fine. Backing up to a dedup pool would be kind of pointless. Once you set it up and do an import of the disk pool, there is almost no point in recovering the catalog. The import will get most of the data you would recover from the catalog. It would be very redundent and take longer. 

For best practice on catalog backup and recovery refer to the Admin guide. 

[Mark_Solutions]

The catalog volume on the appliance is where your working catalog is actually stored - so don't do anything with that area

If you have an advanced disk pool you could use that - in that way it would potentially be recoverable if the server crashed

If you use capacity licensing then you are covered for advanced disk

Not a great issue in backing it up to the de-dupe pool as such but whether you back it up to advanced disk or de-dupe then duplicate it off to tape afterwards.

If you have the resources then do it straight to tape but either way make sure you have a tape copy of a disk copy that is not actually located on the Master (perhaps have it done by a traditional media server onto a disk area)

Hope this helps