Catalog back up

[Funktastik]

Hi,

I've got an issue with tape retention for the catalogue back up. basically we don't want to keep the tape we have the catalog backup on in our robot whilst it fills up. We would like to have it back up the catalog for a week then request another tape. It's currently set with a 2 month retention and performing a full back up daily.

Failing this is there anyway to get Netbackup to back to back up the catalogue direct to a network location rather than a tape?

Cheers

David

[Andy_Welburn]

What version of NetBackup?

[Funktastik]

6.5.1

Cheers

David

[Andy_Welburn · Accepted solution]

So, presumably we're looking at hot catalog backups.

We have ours set up to run a Full, daily like yourselves & it appends each catalog to the tape(s) in question. We then manually remove the tape(s) from the library at the start of each week which then go offsite with our weekend tapes. The catalog backup will then select another tape from the Scratch Pool for the next 'set' of catalog backups.

I suppose you could do this a bit more automatically, but the only way I could envisage this would be to have more than one Catalog Backup policy with each one using a different Volume Pool (e.g. Cat_Week_1 etc etc).

Not sure about the backing up to network location.

[Wes_T__Gator]

I don't currently have any tapes for my catalog backups, so I have been running it to disk, then copying it to our dr site each day.  It performs a cold or 'offline' backup, which makes your media information unavailable during that time.  Also, if you happen to have a backup or restore running when the cold backup kicks in, it will fail if it tries to request a tape during that time for the same reason just mentioned.