Patrick,
If your catalog image database is growing and you want to decrease the
amount of space it is taking, then you CAN do the Catalog Archiving, but
there are other steps that you might want to take first.
First off, if you have retentions that are really long (like over 90 days),
you might want to reduce them.
Of course, this presumes that you can get buy-off from your client base as
to how long they want to be able to go back for doing a restore.
If you have data to support the fact that a high percentage of restores are
only done within, say, 30 days of a backup and it drops off sharply after
that, then you can build a case for shorter retentions. We used to have
some DBA's that requested infinite retentions of backups.....that's
ridiculous.
If you absolutely need to have long retentions, then send a catalog backup
offsite with the backup tapes, give them a 1 year retention and be done with
it. If you need to restore from those tapes after 1 year, you will have the
catalog tape to use OR you can import the tapes in question.
Now, if that still does not shrink your image database size down to a
manageable level, you can use the Catalog Archiving method. I tested it,
it's messy and I came up with a procedure to do it. The Veritas
documentation is not very clear on how it is done. If you are interested I
can send you a copy of the documentation that I put together for doing it.
--stuart
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER,
Simon
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:38 AM
To: 'Whelan, Patrick'; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving
Can I see the documentation? I cannot recall what NBU you are on / platform
Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
Email: <mailto:Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net> Simon.Weaver at
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From: Whelan, Patrick [mailto:Patrick.Whelan at colt.net]
Sent: 31 August 2006 12:19
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Archiving
All,
Is anyone using Catalog Archiving? If so how is it working for you? I have
read the documentation, but it is not clear what the process is if you need
to do a restore of files that have archived. Can you enlighten me?
Regards,
Patrick Whelan
NetBackup Specialist
Architect & Engineering
+44 20 7863 5243
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