If you are using binary format it should speed things up quite a bit.
As to size, we have 2 catalogues of significance.  One is 800gb and the
other is 700gb.  It was originally 1 catalogue but as it approached 1tb
we would hit a VxFS limit (sometime back).

Obviously it can grow to whatever you want, the only question is how you
plan for DR.  Veritas wants it to fit on one tape for ease of recovery.
A good idea all in all.  But not always practical...

~JK

> -----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 Douglas Ritschel
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 1:52 PM
> To: veritas-ng
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Size of NetBackup Catalog
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestion on the maximum size
> that the NetBackup Catalog should be allowed to grow.
> The NetBackup Sys Admin book only recommends that it
> be able to fit on one tape. Which is at least 200 Gigs
> with LTO-gen2 drives.
> 
> With our current frequency and retention level, I'm
> expecting it to be about 35 Gigs. Will this make
> browsing the Catalog extremely slow?
> 
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