09-02-2012 12:10 AM
Cold Catalog Backup could only run when no other backups were running and EMM database was shutdown for duration of the backup. Entire catalog had to fit onto one tape. Tape was overwritten every time.
Solved! Go to Solution.
09-02-2012 11:19 AM
It means that only 1 catalog backup is kept, as the previous one is overwritten everytime a new one runs.
martin
09-02-2012 12:22 AM
Let this one go. Cold Catalog backups are from NetBackup 6.x days and before. Not Supported or recommended in NetBackup 7.
I assume from previous posts you are on NetBAckup 7.x on your master
So not applicable.
09-02-2012 12:25 AM
Cold catalog backups do not exist at NBU7 and should not really even be used at NBU 6.x.
You are asking about something you cannot use.
Martin
09-02-2012 12:29 AM
I know .But i am just asking for the knowledge and interview perspective.
09-02-2012 12:47 AM
Are you the interviewer or interviewee? Asking the questions or getting asked?
09-02-2012 12:48 AM
Getting asked.If any body can please help on this topic,
09-02-2012 12:58 AM
If you want advice/help. Then please take this the most direct way possible.
Download the documentation for supported versions of NetBackup. 7.x or greater.
The time you are taking on these forums, use it to read them - NetBackup System Admin Guides Vol I and II. Read those.
You say you want help - we give it and you ignore a lot of it. Just seems a one way street. Or has your forum activity been about this all along - getting a Backup Admin job?
So if you are hoping to get a job using netbackup, just hope they dont google search and find your post history on these forums. It highlights a lot about your character.
(just saying)
09-02-2012 01:00 AM
I read those.I dint find the solution to above.Thats why asking this .
Martin:Can u please help me in this .
09-02-2012 01:14 AM
You wouldn't find it in the 7.x Docs. It is in the NetBackup 6.x Documentation. Thats where it is relevant.
09-02-2012 01:14 AM
I will be suggestiong we put a stop to answering interview questions. I think the odd one or two questions, if they are 'difficult' is fine, but we get asked hundreas on here , and it is getting silly. The answers are out there, for the majority of the questions, you just have to look for them.
This would be an invalid interview question - cold catalog backups should not be used.
4. Tape was overwritten every time. What this means?
1. Auto or manual I think
2. EMM auto shutdown
3. Cold catalog backups cannot span tapes, so you would have a problem
4. See below, cold catalog backup always start to write at the beginning of the tape, so the onlt cold catalog backup available is the last one taken
09-02-2012 02:35 AM
Tell your interviewer that NBU 6.x is EOSL. So, any question about 6.x is totally irrelevant.
That would be my answer.
By the way, NIKHIL's questions in the opening post comes from my comment in his other thread:
09-02-2012 08:14 AM
4. See below, cold catalog backup always start to write at the beginning of the tape, so the onlt cold catalog backup available is the last one taken
What this means?
09-02-2012 11:19 AM
It means that only 1 catalog backup is kept, as the previous one is overwritten everytime a new one runs.
martin