Disaster recovery emails and the disaster recovery file

The Catalog Backup Wizard and the Backup Policy Wizard prompt you to send the disaster recovery information to an email address. If the catalog backup is configured manually using the Policy utility, this information appears on the Disaster Recovery tab.

The disaster recovery email and the accompanying attachment that is sent contain the following important items for a successful catalog recovery:

A list of the media that contains the catalog backup
A list of critical policies.
Instructions for recovering the catalog
The image file as an attachment.

If a catalog backup policy included both full backups and incremental backups, the attached image file can be a full or an incremental catalog backup.

Recovering from an incremental catalog backup completely recovers the entire catalog if the Automatically recover the entire NetBackup catalog option is selected on the wizard screen. The entire catalog is recovered because the incremental catalog backup references information from the last full backup. You do not need to recover the last full catalog backup before you recover the subsequent incremental backups.

You can tailor the disaster recovery email process by providing the mail_dr_info.cmd script in the Install_path\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin directory. This script is similar to the nbmail.cmd script. See the comments in the nbmail.cmd script for use instructions.