> The Tuning Guide says that the catalog can be 1% or 2% (or higher) of the
> total data being tracked. The catalog size for Netbackup 5.1 is 17 GB. 1%
> of the total data is 500 GB.  Does the catalog really grow that much or
> more when moving to Netbackup 6.0? Thanks

That's just an estimate.  The catalog size is really based on the media
and file tracking you do.

If you're doing file backups of oracle databases, then you probably have
a large amount of data and relatively few files.  Your catalog will
likely be much smaller than average.

If you've got some bad app that tries to use a filesystem as a database
and you have millions and millions of small files, then your catalog
will be larger than average (as a percentage of the data backup size).

That said, my 6.0 machine appears to be using significantly more space
for catalogs than my 5.1 machine did on roughly the same backups.  I
don't have exact figures because the data under backup has grown and I
haven't tried to calculate anything, but I'm sure it's at least 30%
bigger, maybe more.

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