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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