NetBackup and Veritas Appliances Hardening Guide

To change the MSDP shadow catalog schedule

1. Open the following file in a text editor:

   UNIX: /database_path/databases/spa/database/scheduler/5

   Windows: database_path\databases\spa\database\scheduler\5

   By default, NetBackup uses the same path for the storage and the catalog; the database_path and the storage_path are the same. If you configure a separate path for the deduplication database, the paths are different.

   The contents of the file are similar to the following line. The second section of the line (40 3 * * *) configures the schedule.

   CatalogBackup|40 3 * * *|21600|32400|

2. Edit the second section of the file (40 3 * * *). The schedule section conforms to the UNIX crontab file convention, as follows:

   40 3 * * *
   ┬  ┬ ┬ ┬ ┬
   │  │ │ │ │
   │  │ │ │ │
   │  │ │ │ └───── Day of week (0 - 7, Sunday is both 0 and 7, or use  
   │  │ │ │        sun, mon, tue, wed, thu, fri, sat; asterisk (*) is 
   │  │ │ │        every day)
   │  │ │ └────────── Month (1 - 12; asterisk (*) is every month)
   │  │ └─────────────── Day of month (1 - 31; asterisk (*) is every
   │  │                  day of the month)
   │  └──────────────────── Hour (0 - 23; asterisk (*) is every hour)
   └───────────────────────── Minute (0 - 59; asterisk (*) is every 
                              minute of the hour)

3. After your changes, save the file.
4. Restart the NetBackup Deduplication Manager (spad).