Recommendations

• If you are sending your catalog backups to a robot or tape stacker, a second standalone tape drive, or to disk, choose either of the two automatic backups.
• If you must use a single standalone tape drive to back up both catalog and business data, choose either:
• If you will be running only one backup session per day or night, choose:
  After each session of scheduled backups
• If you will be running multiple backup sessions in a single day or night, choose:
  Only when manually initiated

Because NetBackup will not place catalog and regular backups on the same tape, both methods require you to swap tapes.

The general procedure for catalog backups when you have only one standalone drive is:

1. Insert the tape configured for catalog backups.
2. Manually start the backup. See Backing Up the Catalogs Manually.
3. When the backup is complete, remove the tape and store it in a safe place.

   The catalog-backup tape must be removed when the backup is done or regular backups will not occur. NetBackup does not mix catalog and regular backups on the same tape.