Sounds pretty close to my setup, except we don't use Veritas VR.
Another thing I mentioned is querying for running backup jobs.  I don't
recall seeing a Catalog Backup queuing before, but in my environment it
wouldn't.  I just wouldn't want my Catalog to start with a drive
occupied, or a disk staging backup occurring.  So, I'll have the extra
step in a script to do some level of a nbdbjobs to see what's happening.
But the output isn't pretty.

Jason 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Paul
Keating
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:43 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery

I just started thinking recently about using it to automate the offsite
copy of my catalog.

Currently netbackup is backing up the catalog to two tapes in the local
library, and the catalog is replicated using Veritas Volume Replicator
to the standby system at my DR site, as well as any manual intervention
required to make sure a catalog tape is offsite as well.....but since
I'm already FC connected to the library at the DR site, I've been
looking at writing a script to do a bpbackupdb to a tape in the remote
library on a regular basis as well....though from the looks of it, it
will require scripting something to load the tape into a drive, identify
the drive, pass that back to the bpbackupdb, etc, etc....and I've had
more pressing issues to deal with. ;o)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brooks, Jason [mailto:brooksje AT longwood DOT edu]
> Sent: February 10, 2006 9:32 AM
> To: Paul Keating; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery
> 
> 
> Paul,
>       Thanks for the tip.  That, along with bpdbjobs to look for
running 
> backups will go a long wat to automating this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
> -----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 Paul 
> Keating
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:12 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery
> 
> bash-2.03# man bpbackupdb
> 
> > -----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 Brooks,
> > Jason
> > Sent: February 10, 2006 9:10 AM
> > To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery
> > 
> > 
> > As I can see it now, there is no way to schedule another catalog 
> > backup, say every Sunday at 3AM.  Correct?  Is there any
> other way to,
> 
> > say by script, to kick off said job type?
>