[Veritas-bu] Summary of sorts: Drop built-in catalog backup for rsync?

Good morning;
   After posting the query below, and receiving several useful
responses, I have disabled the automatic Catalog backup, and instead
added a brief cron job (on the Media Server where my catalog tape lives)
to run the bpbackupdb command every morning.
   This works like a charm, my backups aren't delayed any more, and the
Catalog backup itself runs more quickly. Thanks to all who responded; I
am very grateful.
-wde
P.S. Dan Logcher of MIT suggested _also_ using rsync to pull a copy of
the Catalog to a DR server after the backup-to-tape, which I like. (See
the list archives for details.) Those MIT guys are as smart as I have
heard! :7)
--
Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI

> -----Original Message-----
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> William Enestvedt
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 1:50 PM
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> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Drop built-in catalog backup for rsync?
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> 
> Good afternoon;
>    Can anyone see disadvantages to dropping the built-in 
> Catalog backup
> in favor of simply using rsync to push it to a second host, other than
> ease of off-site (DR) restore?
>    (I run NBU 3.4 on Solaris 8: one Master & three Media servers, with
> two L9 robots and one L25.) (And stop giggling about my old software.)
>    I have several groups of backups per night, and the slow Catalog
> backup from each group pushes successive jobs later. I would be very
> pleased to eliminate the first Catalog backup, but I don't 
> want to have
> to run it manually.
>    I know that there's a strategy of disabling the automatic Catalog
> backup and then making a special Class which only backups up the
> relevant paths of the Master & Media servers, scheduled to 
> run last each
> night.
>    Is there a reason to prefer that over rsync from cron?
>    Thanks for any suggestions or pointers to existing discussions of
> this. 
> -wde
> --
> Will Enestvedt
> UNIX System Administrator
> Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI
>