Is your DR master a working master without needing the catalog recovered
into it?

On your DR master ( must be a working master )
Make a dir Prodimages  some please.

Copy from your prod master /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/<client> to
the Prodimages on your DR master.

On your DR master create a link
/usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/<client -> /Prodimages/<client>

On the DR master create a volume pool Prodtapes
Write protect the tape from prod put in library and make sure it ends up
in the Prodtapes pool ( yes it will show up as unassigned ).

Open the BAR and select the client you make the link for.  You can
browse the backups that you ftp-ed from prod.

Start the backup and it will ask for the tapes from the Prod server (
its at this point that you know what tapes you need and you put them in
the library if you did not already figure it out ).

Because the images know what tapes the backups are on, and the BAR asks
for the tape.  It should be able to do the restore.

This is from a Symantec doc called "Disaster recovery using partial
catalog recovery in NetBackup"

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
fredsharky
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 12:48 PM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Need Information about Catalog Backup and DR
exercise


We have an Enterprise Backup Solution (EBS) that has one master server
and five media servers and let's say 100 clients.

We want to be able to just pull a DR exercise on one of the clients.  We
run a catalog backup on the master and that is it.

Well if we do the exercise we will have to to a catalog dump of the
whole EBS.  

My question is this; is there a way to do just a catalog backup of just
the clients, the media servers and the master server.

Meaning this:  
Run catalog backup of master - set it up at DR site
Run catalog backup of one media server - set it up at DR site
Run catalog backup of client - set it up at DR site


My goal here is to get away from having to build the whole EBS
environment when we just want to the exercise on one client.

Can anyone at least give me a better way to accomplish this.

Fred

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