Well one day I flew to Georgia to do a DR test and of course I took my handy Vault Catalog tapes with me, I took 4 copies, thinking this is gonna be easy restore test. The next day go to the test siite, do everything the silly e-mail tells me to do, now this is the e-mail you get every morning from Netbackup - this is the one with the that has the UBAK file and all the steps you need to do in order to restore the catalog, I'm thinking cool - no worries - yeah sure I stick the stupid tape into the libray - get it mounted - try the cruddy bprecover -wizard it failes try the gui it fails - call netbackup 4 techs later and 32 hours later it fails all failes, turns out the UBAK file is written incorrectly by Netbackup this is a bug in 6.5.2, so whats the moral of this story, dont backup youre catalog sending to disk and or the old tape meathod, upgrade netbackup as fast as you can, 6.5.2 stinks. DIsk restore is super fast best way!!
Just my two duckets
JD