You need to analyze the tape drive utilization at the time of the catalog 
backup.  Also cold catalog backups in 6.x are not recommended as they only 
work 70% of the time.

Justin.

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Joseph Despres wrote:

> Hey Justin..............
>
> We just took over this new environment...  So historical data isn't
> there....
>
> The HOT catalog works....  We have a test environment were we have done
> catalog recovers...
>
> Just the timing is way off....  This occurs on both tape and disk....
>
> COLD backups are speedy...  These usually run at 1hr....
>
> Thanks....
>
> Joe Despres...........
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> Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
> 07/23/2008 08:23 AM
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> Re: [Veritas-bu] Problems with HOT Catalog backups on NBU 6.0 mp4
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> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Joseph Despres wrote:
>>
>>> We have two issues with our HOT Catalog backups:
>>>
>>> 1...  Getting emails stating the backups failed but later it has a
> status
>>> 0...
>>>
>>> 2...  Hot Catalog backup kicks off at 1am....  But doesn't start
> writing
>>> until 4am to 5 am........
>>>
>>> It's critical that we complete the Hot catalog backup before 3 am....
> And
>>> of course this isn't happening!
>>>
>>> We do two Hot Catalog backups per day:  1 to a media server with
> attached
>>> disk and 1 to media server
>>> with attached tape drives...
>>>
>>> Master = Solaris 9 16gig 4cpus
>>> Media  =  Solaris 9 16gig 4cpus
>>
>> Do you have 'Critical policies' enabled (do you have policies in that
> section
>> of the catalog backup policy)?
>>
>> Justin.
>>
>>
>
> Per your response,
>
> Have the hot catalog backups ever worked properly? Do you have a tape
> drive available at the time of the hot catalog backup?  I suggest setting
> VERBOSE = 5 in bp.conf, make the appropriate log directories and see what
> is happening during the time the catalog backup is scheduled to run.
>
> Justin.
>
>
>
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