FWIW, in NBU 6 hot catalogue backups are the recommended way to go and a
pool called CatalogBackup gets created especially for that purpose. We
therefore just use NetBackup for the normal data tapes and it is fed
from a scratch pool.

Since we use the vault option we also have a VaultCatalogue and a
VaultData pool.

Regards

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of bob944
Sent: Wednesday, 26 April 2006 4:49 pm
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu; 'Wilkinson, Alex'
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Volume Pools [recommendations please]

Alex, you'll get a dozen recommendations.  This is the right one.  :-)

> What is "best practice" with regards to Volume Pools ?
> 
> We are thinking of using a single Volume Pool for all of our data 
> tapes.
> Is it good practice to use the "Netbackup" Volume pool for this 
> situation ?

Yes to the first, no to the second.  

Offline catalog backup tapes in NetBackup.  Everything else in
"dsto-mlb".



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