Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 4.5 DC on UNIX (Moving Image Catalog)

2003-12-16 07:16:49
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 4.5 DC on UNIX (Moving Image Catalog)
From: jamesp AT hisser DOT org (James Pattinson)
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:16:49 +0000 (GMT)
Another reason why I would go for the mountpoint way of doing it...

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, John Sokol wrote:

> However, if you do sym-link to catalog, you may have to configure the
> 'real' locations using bpsyncinfo for good catalog backups... OK I
> didn't check, but I seem to remember this is required.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Furry Cat [mailto:veritas AT hisser DOT org] 
> Sent: 16 December 2003 08:15
> To: adam AT tsatech DOT com
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 4.5 DC on UNIX (Moving Image
> Catalog)
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> What you have done will work fine, and Veritas TS have told customers
> they can 
> do this in the past. I think whoever you were speaking to got confused -
> the 
> prodecure for moving catalogs TO A DIFFERENT MASTER SERVER is the
> complicated 
> one!
> 
> NBU doesn't use anything special to access it's catalogs - they are just
> files.
> 
> Another alternative would be to create a new LV and mount it directly
> under 
> /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/ - just make sure that this LV is mounted
> BEFORE 
> you start netbackup.
> 
> Hope this helps...
> 
> James
> 
>  On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 adam AT tsatech DOT com wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > We are running Netbackup 4.5 DataCenter with MP5.  Netbackup was 
> > installed
> > in /usr/openv/netbackup.  
> > 
> > Our problem  is that the image catalog is growing too much and is 
> > filling up
> > the /usr file system.  Unfortunatelly we do not have the disk space
> necessary 
> > to increase the size of the /usr logical volume.  We do however, have
> a logical 
> > volume which has plenty of free space.  What we were trying to do is
> to see if 
> > we can leave Netbackup where it is, but just move the catalogs to the
> other 
> > file system.  This is what we had in mind:
> > 
> > cd /usr/openv/netbackup
> > cp -rp db /depots/
> > mv db db.orig
> > ln -s /depots/db db
> > 
> > We tried the above on our development box and everything seems to be 
> > fine.  We
> > have been able to browse the catalogs and searched for previously
> backed up 
> > images. We have even deleted some files and restored them without any
> apparent 
> > problems.
> > 
> > However, when we spoke to Veritas about doing what we did, they said 
> > it was not
> > as simple as that, that it was quite a complicated process and that
> Veritas 
> > consultant was required to move catalogs.  They would not even tell me
> what 
> > their process for moving the catalogs is.  I was told by the Veritas
> SE that 
> > those procedures were Veritas Internal.
> > 
> > Does anyone know if that is true?  What would the implications be of 
> > doing what
> > we did?  Everything appears to be working just fine.  
> > 
> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Thank you!
> > -Adam
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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