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shawntabat's avatar
shawntabat
Level 3
5 years ago

Exporting Catalog

Hello,

I am new to NBU, taking over my company's environment with no experience since the previous admin left the company. My management has requested I send a third party our NBU catalog for management (ie., they have all of our tapes and catalog and when we request restores from them, they find the associated tapes and SFTP us the data). However, I have no clue what I am doing.

I've searched online and cannot find solid information, so I reached out to a user directly through here and he suggested I open my question up to you fine people. 

Our deployment is 7.7.3 and we're running a Linux master server, if this helps.

Thanks!

Shawn

  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    5 years ago

    shawntabat 

    The 3rd-party company will need the catalog backup, the DR-file, plus the actual backup tapes.

    Do a Catalog Backup to tape, then send the Catalog backup tape along with DR-file.
    They then need to perform a Catalog recovery using the catalog backup tape and DR-file.

    Note as per DPFreelance 's post that the master server hostname must be the same.
    NBU installation must also be done to the path and version must match exactly.

    NBU Catalog Recovery is covered in the Disaster Recovery chapter of NBU Troubleshooting Guide. 

  • So what would need to happen is:

    The other company would need to stand up a new master server with the SAME hostname as your current master.  Then the can "import" the catalog into that server.

    There are a variety of ways you could do that, depending on how big your catalog is and what you write it to.  If you write it to tape, you can send them the tapes plus the "Catalog DR File" (which should be written out or emailed to you every time a catalog runs).  If you write your catalog to disk (it would have to be 'standard disk'), you coud copy the files mentioned in the Catalog DR File and send them all of that on whatever medium you choose.

     

    Question: what are you going to do about future backups?  You would have to continually sync the catalog to the 3rd party if you want access to backups written since the last catalog you sent them.

    • shawntabat's avatar
      shawntabat
      Level 3

      Hello DPSafelite,

      We are migrating to another appliance and for contract reasons we need to have this tape library around, but not actively receiving backups.

      If I go into Policies and open up my Catalog backup policy, then go to Disaster Recovery tab, it should write a copy of the backup to the path designated. From there, I can send it over to our vendor. Is that right?

      -Shawn

      • Marianne's avatar
        Marianne
        Level 6

        shawntabat 

        The 3rd-party company will need the catalog backup, the DR-file, plus the actual backup tapes.

        Do a Catalog Backup to tape, then send the Catalog backup tape along with DR-file.
        They then need to perform a Catalog recovery using the catalog backup tape and DR-file.

        Note as per DPFreelance 's post that the master server hostname must be the same.
        NBU installation must also be done to the path and version must match exactly.

        NBU Catalog Recovery is covered in the Disaster Recovery chapter of NBU Troubleshooting Guide.