Recently I did go trough DR test and I did find hard way of recovering my 
servers... Well the biggest problem that we were having was that in our 
production environment we had Windows 64bit running NetBackup server/media 
server. and in our DR we did not request that so they did give us Windows 32bit 
instead.. well my catalogs could not be loaded becuase of that difference... so 
then we did go and preloaded machine with 64bit OS and whole installation went 
just perferc and recovery was on its way.. but here are my questions regarding 
my DR test:

1) is there any way to use different Platrofm 64bit vs 32bit? how about 
different OS Windows vs Solaris for catalog recovery? Is there any way to 
conver 
while inporting catalogs? I suspect that answer is no but I wanted to ask you 
experts out there...
2) When we do backups we do have primary copy and then we send a duplicate 
tapes 
offiste... so I did have two copies in catalog tape lets say 00001 and tape 
00037, when I did select files to recover it said it was waiting for tape 00001 
and did not even look for tape 00037, so we did go and expired tape 00001 and 
then it was able to read tape 00037. Is there any way not to have do that? What 
if tape 00037 was bad and I requested tape 00001 to be delivered and my catalog 
is already expired, I would then have to scan my tape or reimport my catalog I 
guess but that is stupid if you ask me...

I am not an expert thats why I wanted to see if any answers to my questions.

By the way I did not mention I am using NetBackup 6.0MP4 if that helps in 
helping me with my qurestions.

Thank you so much for help.

Regards,

Chris

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