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Catalogs not showing on the Backup, Archive and Restore

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jon4crm

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Hi Guys,

The catalog has been configured to backup to another disk and it backs up successfully well. I needed to restore a some files. I initiated the Backup, Archive and Restore module but I noticed that the catalogs are not being displayed so that I can select the files I need to restore.
I have installed NetBackup version 5.1 for Windows.

What could be the problem?

Regards,

John
 
Your looking in the wrong place. The catalog backups and restores are done differently than the normal data backups and restores.

It's kind of like the big bang theory for creating the universe. Before you can have a big bang to create the universe you have to have something that is able to go BANG!

The command to recover the catalog is "bprecover". It is explained in the sysadmin guide but perhaps of more use will be the "Trouble Shooting Guide" under disaster recovery of the master server. Here is a snippet:

Assume the catalog backup was done to disk path D:\apps\dbbackup and this disk has not failed. Execute the following bprecover command to list the backup information.
bprecover -l -dpath D:\apps\dbbackup

There should also be information on the usage of bprecover in the "Commands for Windows" manual.



Bob Stump
Just because the Veritas documentation states a certain thing does not make it a fact
 
It's all down to the question of life, chicken or the egg. How do you backup the backup? Well it's simple you don't you have a seperate little backup to backup the backup. That's why you can't do any backups whilst the catalog backup is running.
 
What if you have no choice and the window is 24hrs.???

 
There is an alternative way to backup the images separately and you can also backup to disk

Bob Stump
Just because the Veritas documentation states a certain thing does not make it a fact
 
What if you have no choice and the window is 24hrs.???

Just remember there is no point in doing backups if you can't do restores. Without the catalog you are really in a pickle. You need to make this the most important backup, everything else should fit in around it. If you lose that you lose everything.
 
I just copy/pasted this from another post i replied to so it may sound a bit 'wooden' with regards to this post -

What i do for catalog backups is the following -

2 tapes in the robot are assigned for catalog bkups, they alternate after each set of successful backups (you say you have 24hr backups but you got to create a catalog backup window at least after easch 'set' of backups as the other guys have mentioned; further to that i have a cronjob that (a few times a morning) attempts to open an nfs mount to a.n.other server and perform a catalog backup to an area on that server); this script has to be clever enough to only try to run when all bkups are complete plus no other
catalog bkups can be running at same time.

Then manually (gotta leave some things for us humans to do!) once a week i tar the data from the disk catalog to a tape and send offsite. Which reminds me i must find a server on another floor to point this disk backup to, instead.
Of course you could go further than this and swap out the catalog tapes often, but i guess it'd be less hassle to write to disk on another server and copy that data to tape frequently.


Rich
 
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