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All,
Just a general query on the best practice for the location of the NetBackup catalog (Its DB, images, ect).
When you install NBU on a Server, the location can be accepted as the "default" or you can customise the installation and choose an alternative location (ie: Spare drive on local server, SAN attached drive, ect).
Presently, I have NetBackup and the catalog installed locally, on RAID5 set, hot swappable.
My question is this: Is there a best practice for the location of the Catalog? For example, SAN attached disk? I sort of feel uncomfortable with this for several reasons:
1) If you lose SAN connectivity (due to a major disaster or failure) the catalog has gone
2) NetBackup and the OS relies on that disk being available constantly
Being stored locally, means the Server and its application (including the catalog) goes with it, and does not rely on an extra layer of hardware for the catalog to be available.
I think my concerns come from a previous environment where the catalog was stored on a SAN, and was totally destroyed and unrecoverable, which meant a complete import of hundreds of tapes.
If anyone has any feedback on this, would like to hear the pro's and con's to storage off the physical server itself. I have always had the catalog locally stored.
Thanks, Simon
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