On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 04:55:10PM +0100 or thereabouts, SMolema AT rdw DOT nl 
wrote:
>    Hello,
> 
>    We want to use Synthetic Backup's, but I don't know if we have a problem
>    with our Veritas Catalog. At first we used Veritas Netbackup 3.4.1
>    (1996?), converted to 4.5 (2002?) and we use at this moment 5.1 MP1.
> 
>    With 3.4.1. we used an ASCII catalog, which we have converted to Binary
>    with 4.5 (or 5.1 MP1).  When a make a backup, I have indeed the *.f 
>    catalog file's, so they are Binary.
> 
>     
> 
>    In the  "Notes on Synthetic Backup"  I read that  < Synthetic Backup's
>    cannot be created with ASCII catalogs OR converted Catalogs >
> 
>    Do they mean I cannot use Synthetic Backup's at all  (while we have
>    converted the Catalog a long time ago) or that we cannot make Synthetic
>    Backup's with our OLD backup sets, but we can use/build  "Synthetic
>    Backup's with the Backup's we are making now?
> 


Hello Sebo-

Your second theory is correct:  you cannot make a new synthetic backup
using your OLD backups that were originally written to the imageDB in
the ASCII format.  But your recent backups, which were originally written
in binary format, can be used to make synthetics.

HTH
rob