Re: [Veritas-bu] What to do with our growing Catalog on the Master serve

I'd suggest using the bpcat* commands:

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpcatarc /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpcatlist /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpcatres /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpcatrm

We were able to cut our catalog from ~450GB to ~250GB.

Ken Zufall
Operating Systems Administrator
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

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We have a midsize NBU environment consist of 1 master and 6 media servers. Windows 32bit NBU7.0.1 backing up around 60-70 TB per week. Good portion of the data coming from ndmp. Front-end connected to a VTL and backend to a Spectra....The master catalog has grown to about 450 GB. We are getting close to a hardware refresh on our master and media servers.... Here is what I was thinking... Option 1: Just refresh the hardware building a 64bit Windows 2008 server and keeping everything the same. 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. Option 2: Keeping the existing 32bit master and add a new 64bit Windows 2008 Master (using a different name) restore only the policies and start to run jobs off the new master. Keeping the existing master for restore purposes. This way I can start a fresh catalog and keep it locally and will have plenty of space for growth. Any solid advice is much appreciated, please include why you would choose one over the other and if you think any potential issues/difficulties with either option. By all means if you had similar situation and you resolved it completely different using a different strategy, please do share as well. I'm open to new ideas! thanks in advance! +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by chana AT pamf DOT org via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to abuse AT backupcentral DOT com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

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Re: [Veritas-bu] What to do with our growing Catalog on the Master server??