To configure an online, hot catalog backup manually

1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand NetBackup Management > Policies.

2. Select Actions > New > Policy.

3. Type a unique name for the new policy in the Add a New Policy dialog box.

   Click OK.

4. On the Attributes tab, complete the following entries:

   • Policy Type

     Select NBU-Catalog as the policy type.

   • Policy storage

     For disk storage units, increase the Maximum Concurrent Jobs storage unit setting to ensure that the catalog backup can proceed during regular backup activity.

     See Maximum concurrent jobs setting.

     Note:

     The media server that is used for catalog backups must be at the same NetBackup version as the master server. If your installation contains media servers of various levels, do not select Any Available for the destination Policy Storage Unit. If media servers are at various version, a media server at a level other than the master server could be selected.

   • Policy volume pool

     NetBackup automatically creates a CatalogBackup volume pool that is selected by default only for NBU-Catalog policy types.

   • For other policy attribute descriptions, see the following topic:

     See About the Policy attributes.

5. Select the Schedules tab to set up a schedule for an online catalog backup.

   See Running online, hot catalog backups concurrently with other backups.

   See About catalog policy schedules.

   See About the Schedules tab.

   Note:

   The Clients tab does not apply to the NBU-Catalog policy and does not appear.

6. The Disaster Recovery tab appears for NBU-Catalog policies only.

   The tab contains information regarding the location of data crucial to disaster recovery:

   • See Path.

     Enter the path where each disaster recovery image file can be saved on disk. The image file contains the disaster recovery information. Enter the logon and password information, if necessary.

     Symantec recommends that you save the image file to a network share or a removable device. Do not save the disaster recovery information to the local machine.

   • See Logon.

   • See Password.

   • See Send in an email attachment field.

7. You may want to add critical policies to the Critical Policies list. The Critical Policies list contains the names of policies that back up critical data. Media that contains critical policy backups is listed on the NetBackup Disaster Recovery Report that is generated when the online catalog backup is run. The reports lists the media for only incremental and full backup schedules, so critical policies should use only incremental or full backup schedules.

   See Adding policies to the Critical Policies list of a catalog backup policy.

   Click OK to save the policy.