Sort of.  I write the catalog to tape, then write it again to disk, then
ZIP the whole thing up.  The raw catalog will compress to around 25% of
it's original size, so you'll probably end up with something around
20GB.  I then burn that to DVD and include it with our weekly offsite
rotation.  It's the "poor man's Vault", but it actually works fairly
well.  I'm doing this through Windows, and it would be exponentially
easier through some UNIX variant.  Look at the dbbackup_notify script.
My catalog is only about 10-12GB uncompressed so YMMV.

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Martin,
Jonathan (Contractor)
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 7:23 AM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Remote Catalog Backup

I'm looking into getting away from tape based catalog backups and
writing them to disk, then scripting them to copy to our DR site.
Anyone doing anything like this?  I'm thinking I'll have to compress,
given the 80GB of Catalog files produced.  Has anyone tested Zipped or
RAR'd Catalog file restores?  I'm about to run a full DR test from a NBU
perspective, and I'd like to get this in before then if possible.

Thanks!

-Jonathan

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