Key Steps to Protecting the Catalog

It is very important to back up the Catalog every day. It is equally important to know where the Catalog backup resides. Specifically, you need to know the tape and the location of the Catalog backup on the tape. However, the location of the backup Catalog is kept in the Catalog itself. Thus, if the Catalog is lost, the location information is lost as well.

To be prepared for a disaster recovery situation where the Catalog is lost, you need to take two critical steps:

• Define a Catalog backup job and schedule it to run daily.

• Ensure you have a Catalog backup report. Do this by enabling email reporting in the Catalog backup job definition. The emailed job report help you to quickly locate your Catalog backup.

In addition, you must plan a prudent, trackable strategy for storing Catalog backups offsite.