Richard
Although recommended, Online Cat backups were originally designed for
Enterprise Backup Environments where there is no "window" to perform an
offline backup. In other words, it will work while normal backups are
running at the same time.
Also (I think I am write!), online catalog backups allow the use to span
more tapes, where an offline uses 1.

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 

EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU

Email: Simon.Weaver AT Astrium-eads DOT net



-----Original Message-----
From: Mansell, Richard [mailto:Richard.Mansell AT ccc.govt DOT nz] 
Sent: 26 April 2006 06:06
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Volume Pools [recommendations please]


FWIW, in NBU 6 hot catalogue backups are the recommended way to go and a
pool called CatalogBackup gets created especially for that purpose. We
therefore just use NetBackup for the normal data tapes and it is fed from a
scratch pool.

Since we use the vault option we also have a VaultCatalogue and a VaultData
pool.

Regards

Richard

-----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 bob944
Sent: Wednesday, 26 April 2006 4:49 pm
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu; 'Wilkinson, Alex'
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Volume Pools [recommendations please]

Alex, you'll get a dozen recommendations.  This is the right one.  :-)

> What is "best practice" with regards to Volume Pools ?
> 
> We are thinking of using a single Volume Pool for all of our data
> tapes.
> Is it good practice to use the "Netbackup" Volume pool for this 
> situation ?

Yes to the first, no to the second.  

Offline catalog backup tapes in NetBackup.  Everything else in "dsto-mlb".



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