"Backing up the catalog is optional. However, vaulting a catalog backup with your
data can help you recover from a disaster more efficiently. Vault creates its own
catalog backup with up-to-date information; Vault does not duplicate the
NetBackup catalog."
"Use Vault to vault the NetBackup catalogs. A current catalog backup is a critical
component of an effective disaster recovery plan. Although you can rebuild the
catalog by importing all of your backup media manually, it is a time-consuming
process.
Vault requirements and guidelines are as follows:
■ Perform the catalog backup step in Vault. Vault creates a new catalog backup
with up-to-date information, it does not duplicate an existing NetBackup
catalog backup. A NetBackup catalog backup is not a substitute for a Vault
catalog backup. It does not include the latest information about duplicated
media and media location.
■ Use only one vault to do Vault catalog backup.
■ Use a dedicated volume pool for Vault catalog backups.
Best Practices
About preparing for efficient recovery
■ If you have a robot attached to the master server, use it for the Vault catalog
backup. In most circumstances that master server creates the NetBackup
catalog that remains on site.
See the discussion of NetBackup catalog backups in the NetBackup
Administrator’s Guide, Volume I.
■ Retain the three most recent catalog backups. In most circumstances, you do
not need to retain vaulted catalog backups for the same length of time that
you retain other vaulted backup media. Although you only need one catalog
backup in your offsite vault, for extra protection, maintaining the three most
recent catalog backups in your offsite vault is a good practice. The Recovery
Report for Vault lists only the three most recent catalog backups in the offsite
vault regardless of how many actually reside in the vault.
■ To retain only the three most recent catalog backups, specify an appropriate
retention level so that older catalog backups expire and are recalled from
offsite storage"
Regarding DR files..
Have you got network connection between primary location and DR location ? You can simply copy or replicate DR files to DR site.
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