The command you're looking for is "bpdbm -consistency 2 > output_file"

Plan for it to take quite a while with larger catalogs.

John Nardello
T-Mobile: Enterprise Backup Group Tech. Lead
"Your backups are only as good as your restores."


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From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 10:16 AM
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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog intregrity


 
Actually, I think I have answered some of my own questions....


> 1) The tech at Veritas said there is a CLI for checking the catalog
file,
> does anyone know what that is and what the command format is?

Still looking for that command....

> 2) When the catalog is backed up to disk, where does the backup go?
> Since my file was in the "backup" directory, does that mean the
original
> catalog file is someplace else, and if so, where? This could mean that
> the catalog is intact and only the backup of the catalog got
corrupted.

I didn't realize that this is a configurable option (found in the NB SA
Guide). However, I was *amused* to find a bid warning that says NOT to
configure the backup location to reside on the same physical disk as the
catalog itself. So much for planning, but at least I have an alibi! This
will change soon, too....

> 3) If the catalog is corrupted, is there a way to rebuild w/out having
> to read every single tape? And how do I restore a catalog from backups
> that were written to disk instead of tape? At least we will have only
> lost a couple days worth of backups in the catalog, and that's a lot
> less tapes to re-read.

bprecover is the comand to recover catalog info, but I think I don't
need it at this point. The parameters are used to specify the path
(-dpath <path_to_backup>).

Thanks again to anyone who read this and was about to respond...  :-)

....k
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