Catalog backups on NetBackup are going to disk and then getting written to tape with a semi-manual dump command.
NetBackup was having problems with the catalog backup directly to tape, so I set it to back up to disk instead. Then I modified the dbbackup_notify script to run a little shell script that takes a snapshot of the /home filesystem and dumps it to tape. This has the benefit of also backing up all of the NetBackup installation as well.
The dump script uses fssnap to take the snapshot, and then uses ufsdump to perform the dump to tape.
Posted by Rowan Littell at November 14, 2003 09:02 AM