Catalog Considerations for Product Upgrade

Perform the following important steps to preserve all necessary information in the event you need to recover the master server Catalog:

1. Perform a Catalog condense. The condense job reclaims master server resources previously used for legacy jobs, schedules, and Catalogs.

2. Perform a Catalog backup to a new or empty tape, with retention time set to as long as needed to cover your restore needs.

3. Store the following together in a safe archive:

   • The Catalog backup tape. Ensure you set the tape write protection tab to prevent accidental overwrite.

   • A printout of the Catalog backup job log.

   • Your original installation media. It may be needed for disaster recovery or other special restore operations. Note that all Catalogic installation ISOs and patches are always available for download from MySupport.

4. If your environment uses Disk Directory volumes for Catalog backup, ensure you have an acceptable way to archive the Catalog backup offsite so that the Catalog can be easily retrieved when necessary.