> 
> Thanks for the multiple responses to my problem, but all responses refer to
> putting the Catalog backups in a special pool.  This is not possible due to
> the way our script that performs the catalog backup.  It uses bpsyncinfo to
> specify the catalog backup tape, and that tape must be a member of the
> "NetBackup" pool which also contains client backups.  Is there another way
> that does not involve volume pools?

You could "assign" the tapes manually with vmquery.  Give it the same
status as other catalog tapes (0x1 I believe).  Then the volume will
never be assigned to Netbackup for backups.

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