Precautions When Backing Up to Disk

When backing up the catalogs to disk, observe the following precautions:

• Always back up to a physical disk other than the disk containing the catalogs. For example, if your computer has two physical disks and the catalogs are on the Disk 1, back up the catalogs to Disk 2.

If you back up the catalogs to the same disk and that disk fails, both the catalogs and catalog backups are lost. It is difficult or impossible to restore data to the NetBackup clients. By default, the catalogs are stored in the following locations, so the destination of your catalog backup must be on a different disk:

install_path\NetBackup\db

install_path\Volmgr\database

install_path\NetBackup\var

Where the default install_path is C:\Program Files\VERITAS

• Ensure that the disk has adequate space for the catalogs. If the disk fills up, the catalog backups will fail.
• Ensure that the path is a directory rather than a file. If the path is a file, an error occurs when the backup is run, not at the time the path is specified.