Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide

Recovering the deduplication pool catalog

1. Log on to the Appliance with a NetBackupCLI user account

   See Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts.

2. Enter the following command to identify the space requirements:

   # drcontrol --print_space_required --policy <policy-name> --log_file ~/<log file name>

   Replace <log file name> with the name of the log file thedrcontrol tool creates.

   Note:

   If the drcontrol tool is run without the log file option the tool creates a file that is not accessible to the NetBackupCLI user. Make sure to choose a directory accessible by the NetBackupCLI user, such as the home directory of the NetBackupCLI user.

3. Log on to the Appliance as an Appliance Administrator.
4. Run hardware monitoring commands to make sure that there are no errors.
5. Run hardware self-test to make sure that all hardware components are in place and functioning correctly.
6. Run Manage > Storage > Show to make sure that all the storage components are in place and functional. Also verify that the deduplication pool catalog partition size meets the space requirements.
7. If the size requirement is not met, run Manage > Storage Resize MSDPCatalog to expand the partition.
8. Log on to the Appliance with a NetBackupCLI user account.
9. Perform the catalog recovery using drcontrol and other tools as documented in the MSDP catalog recovery section of the NetBackup Deduplication Guide.

   Note:

   If the drcontrol tool is run without the log file option the tool creates a file that is not accessible to the NetBackupCLI user. Make sure to choose a directory accessible by the NetBackupCLI user, such as the home directory of the NetBackupCLI user.