>          1B: instead of keeping the catalog on a local disk - possibly we can 
> direct connect to one of our filers and dump the catalog there.

I always considered it a really bad idea to put my catalog, or even
catalog backup, on the same storage systems as the data that I'm
backing up (I'm not sure if that's the case you're describing). If
that array fails for any reason, you could lose both the data as well
as the catalog for that data, making a restore take considerably
longer.

My environment isn't nearly that size, but I keep my 23gb catalog on
local disks on my master and do catalog backups to an array at the
other end of the campus.

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