Cat_import Requirement

[mansoor_sheik]

Hi All,

 A backup is taken in a server ( server1) which is running Netbackup 7.6 . Used Tape Media for backup ( say ABCD).

If i ship the media to different environment which is runniong 7.6 with the same hostname ( server1)  and the catalog is also copied.

For this scenario, do i need to do cat_import ?

[mansoor_sheik]

Hi Marianne/nagella,

One query, In partial catalog recovery, do the master server name has to be same( both PR and DR).

We have same hostname in exsisting 7.1 setup.( I feel that need not to be same)

But requesting your input in this.

[RamNagalla]

No, its not required to be same...

your DR server can be the another one which also can be the Procudtion for other servers..

[Marianne]

The  "recovery without import" method is meant for different hostnames.

As per previous comments in this discussion - with same hostname, catalog recovery is the easiest.

Partial recovery (just images, policies, etc) will also work with different hostnames.

This discussion has been going on for long enough, don't you think?

[mansoor_sheik]

Hi All,

We have tested Recovery without import sucessfully. We have upgraded the dev environment.need to do in production. Thanks for all your support.

[mansoor_sheik]

Hi All,

As per Tech200290, along with symantec team, i did the below two change.

1. included replace_destination

[root@server1 bin]# cat_export -all -staging

cat_export failed with images exported = 0 and images skipped = 1

unable to process request

[root@server1 bin]# cat_export -all -staging -replace_destination

cat_export succeeded with images exported = 4188 and images skipped = 0

2.nbdb_backup command removed the truncate_log option.