Matt Beal explained:
>
> Veritas refers to this as "Multiple-Tape Catalog Backups" and 
> it's described in the System Administrator's Guide (page 181, 
> specifically, in the 4.5 FP3 SA guide).
> 
   Ah, there we go! It's on pages 158ff of the NBU 3.4 System
Administrator's Guide, for any old-fashioned, near-Amish Backup Admins
still running version 3.4 -- like myself. :7)
>
> I had a problem backing up catalogs that Veritas never could 
> figure out. It wouldn't write to tape or disk any faster than 
> about 3 MB/s. Now that I use this method, my catalog backups 
> run at about 65 MB/s.
> 
   I'll definitely look into this -- thanks!
-wde
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Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI