Multiple-Tape Catalog Restores

A restore of the NetBackup catalogs is also achieved in two steps. The first step is to use the most recent NetBackup catalog backup to recover the portion of the image catalog containing information about the backups taken from the master server, together with the other parts of the NetBackup and Media Manager catalogs on the master server and, if configured, the media servers.

Once this information has been recovered, NetBackup can be started and one of the user interfaces can be used to browse the files backed up from the master. These include the files and directories that constitute the NetBackup images catalog, which were backed up using the first step of the catalog backup described above. Using the normal restore process, these files and directories are restored, completing the operation. You must ensure the option Overwrite Existing Files is not selected, since this replaces the files previously recovered in stage 1.