I would never exclude these paths from regular backup.

What would you do if part of your catalog was damaged, but you didn't
notice for a few days?  Having regular backups gives a much better
chance at being able to restore part of the catalog, or at least
quickly identify the tapes you're going to need to scan.

Given the design of the "catalog", it's definitely not useless to backup
to tape during a session.  This is not a replacement for the special
catalog backup, but valuable additional protection.

Jason Ahrens writes:
> A question regarding NetBackup database backups, and regular backups.
> 
> Given that NetBackup Database backup is backing up the
> /usr/openv/netbackup/db, /usr/openv/var, and /usr/openv/volmgr/database
> directories, I was thinking I should exclude these directories from regular
> backups. In theory, these directories are useless to backup to tape as their
> data is 'volatile' during an actual NetBackup backup, and must be backed up
> with bpbackupdb to be valid anyway.
> 
> Thoughts or opinions on this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jason
> 
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