Dennis, What do you have as your backup selection inside your catalog policy.
We have always used the default backup selection in our catalog policies (1 Daily full, daytime cumulative every hour, night time cumulative every 3 hours) and a quick look at our policy shows we have specified CATALOG_DRIVEN_BACKUP as the backup selection. I can’t find anything that confirms exactly what is backed up by this backup selection but we also do our DR testing at Sungard in Philly and have successfully restored our catalog multiple times. I also went into the backup and restore GUI and took a look at some of our catalog backups and they all seem to get the list of files you were talking about under /usr/openv (db, netbackup, var, volmgr). Under /volmgr/database I see the following .devices_ready globDB ltidevs poolDB robotic_def ruleDB volDB I don't know if it makes any difference but we don't backup up anything to tape (all backups go to Data Domain restorers). The one time we did try a DR exercise from tape we couldn't get the catalog restore to work. That helped put together a pretty convincing business case to move to disk based backups and we've been 100% successful every time since then !! Mark Glazerman Desk: 314-889-8282 Cell: 618-520-3401 please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to -----Original Message----- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 5:41 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 Catalog backup - Issue??? I just checked by catalog tape ( I always do fulls) And I do find /usr/openv/netbackup/db on the tape listing class and images and other items. So I checked the catalog config and see in the file list that I specify the catalog to backup that dir. My list Master:/usr/openv/netbackup/db Master:/usr/openv/volmgr/database Master:/usr/openv/var Media:/usr/openv/netbackup/db Media:/usr/openv/volmgr/database Media:/usr/openv/var Master:NETBACKUP_RELEATIONL_DATABASE_FILES What is in your list? -----Original Message----- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis Peacock Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 5:04 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 Catalog backup - Issue??? We are running Solaris 10 boxes, Netbackup 6.5.3.1 1 master server 4 media servers SL8500 tape library with T10Kb drives Just got back from a Disaster Recovery Exercise at Sungard in Philly. What we discovered is: Full Catalog backup does NOT backup /usr/openv/db but DOES backup /usr/openv/netbackup, /usr/openv/var, & /usr/openv/volmgr. Differential/Incremental Catalog backup DOES backup the following: /usr/openv/db /usr/openv/netbackup /usr/openv/var /usr/openv/volmgr The difference is the FULL backup "misses" the /usr/openv/db directory and it's files, while the DIFF/INCR does backup the /usr/openv/db directory. So what's the big deal? In a DR Exercise, you normally bring your FULL catalog backup with you and recover the catalog from that FULL. What it does NOT put back are the "Media Pools" that are outside the Netbackup default media pools. This means that once your recovery of the catalog is done? You have nothing but the standard default media pools and not your production media pools for your backups and any RMAN backups. Anybody seen this or know if I'm just off my rocker or is Netbackup really missing part of the catalog for DR Recovery? Inquiring minds want to know. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by dpe...@acxiom.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu