Reduce Restore Times by Indexing the Image Catalog

If you have large numbers of backups, reduce the total time required to restore files by creating indexes of the backed up files that are recorded in the NetBackup image catalog. NetBackup can then use the indexes to go directly to the catalog entry for a file rather than starting the search at the beginning of the catalog entries.

Use the following command to generate indexes for one or all clients, and for up to nine levels of directories:

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/index_clients level client_name

Where:

• level is the number of directory levels (1 to 9) to be indexed. The levels refer to the directories from where files were backed up on the client.

For example, if you're searching for /payroll/smith/taxes/01 and level is 2, NetBackup starts the search at /payroll/smith. The default is 9.

• client_name is the name of the client of the backups you want to index. The default is all clients.

Run this command once, to activate indexing for a client. Once activated, indexing is done automatically each night when NetBackup does its cleanup for the previous day's activities.