Backing Up the Catalogs Manually
A manual backup starts a backup of the catalogs immediately. Starting a manual backup is useful in the following situations:
- To perform an emergency backup. For instance, if you anticipate a problem or are moving the system and do not want to wait for the next scheduled catalog backup.
- You have only one standalone drive and no robots or tape stacker and are using the standalone drive for catalog backups. In this situation, automatic backups are not convenient because the catalog-backup tape must be inserted before each catalog backup and removed when the backup is done. The tape swapping is necessary because NetBackup does not mix catalog and regular backups on the same tape.
To perform the catalog backup manually
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In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand NetBackup Management > Catalog.
If your site has more than one master server, use File > Change Server to select a different server. See Administering a Remote Master Server.
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Select Actions > Backup NetBackup Catalog to start the backup. The Backup NetBackup Catalog dialog appears.
The backup is saved to the least recently used of Media 1 and Media 2.
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Select the master server for which you wish to create a catalog backup and click OK.
Note
If the volume for the catalog backup is not in a drive, a mount request occurs and all catalog backups must wait for the mount before they can proceed. For a scheduled catalog backup, all other backups started by the scheduler must wait until the catalog backup is complete.
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