About online, hot catalog backups

In NetBackup 7.0 and later, all catalog backups are online, hot catalog backups. The ability to configure offline, cold catalog backups has been removed in this release.

The online, hot catalog backup is designed for active environments in which continual backup activity occurs. It is considered an online, hot method because it can be performed while regular backup activity occurs.

The online, hot catalog backup is policy-based so it has all of the scheduling flexibility of a regular backup policy. Because the policy allows for incremental backups, catalog backup times for large catalogs can be significantly reduced.

Online, hot catalog backups use media from the CatalogBackup volume pool only.

The online, hot catalog backup performs the following tasks:

You can configure an online catalog backup by using one of the following methods: