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• #DISK CATALOG UTILITY HOW TO#

If the Catalog Files are not available in the Catalog location, BE cannot display the Backup Sets in the console. They are stored in BKF, IMG, OST and tape (media based catalog) and physically present at the Catalog location stored in the registry. Where are the Backup Exec catalogs stored? If both need to be triggered for a storage or a few media, then choose Inventory and Catalog now. The Backup Exec User Interface provides options to run Inventory and Catalog job as seperate Jobs. It can be BKF, OST, IMG and/or tape.Ĭatalog: This is the process of reading the metadata of the Backup Set from the storage media and then creating catalog files for Backup Exec (which BE would store in default Installation path\Catalogs folder). "Media" is any medium where a backup is being written. Inventory: This is the process of reading a media header and adding the information about that tape to the Backup Exec database. What is the difference between Inventory and Catalog? If these files are lost they can be regenerated (Run a Catalog Job within BE) with the help of Media Based catalog as the media always contains the info about what sets are written on it until the media is overwritten. These are called Disk Based Catalog (These are XML and FH files in catalogs folder of BE). In order for Backup Exec to read the information about the set stored on the Backup Media, it needs to create Catalog files which it stores on Disk. This is referred to as Media Based Catalog which reside on the media. When backup is taken on a media, the information about the set that is being written is also added to that storage media. The purpose of reading the data can be to restore data or duplicate a backup set to another secondary or tertiary storage. Is backing up the Backup Exec Catalog Files helpful? How is it done?īackup Exec Catalogs are considered as the indexes that Backup Exec uses to ensure it can read the data that is stored in the Backup Media.

#DISK CATALOG UTILITY HOW TO#

How to find the Family Sequence Number of a particular set.