The size of the catalog depends more on the amount of files being backed up,
rather than the size of the data.

This issue is well documented in the Netbackup system administrator's guide,
downloadable from Veritas' support site. There are also examples there on
how to determine catalog space requirements.

-Heine Didriksen


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Coco, Samuel (Cont, ARL/CISD)" <scoco AT arl.army DOT mil>
To: "Jennifer Green" <jc AT goo-rooz DOT com>; <veritas-bu AT 
mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 6:50 PM
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog sizes


> NBU 4.5 FP3 - 74 active clients - 109 total clients - 67 policies - 644
> volumes - ~ 32 TB data stored - - -> A catalogue size of 11.7 GB on a
> SUN E3000 using Sol 8.
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> Samuel J. Coco, STG
> Functional Area Manager, ARL
> Sr UNIX Administrator
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> Email  scoco AT arl.army DOT mil
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>
> -----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 Jennifer
> Green
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 12:35 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Catalog sizes
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to correctly size catalog space and was wondering what all
> of
> you are seeing with your catalog sizes.  Generally it would be 2-4% of
> total
> data being backed up = 1Tb data = 20-40G catalog...is this what you are
> seeing?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jennifer
>
>
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