I have 2 Netbackup Appliances in seperate domains and both are on 7.6.0.3. The second appliance is located in a DR site. We have a small link between the 2 sites, and I use AIR to replicate a few small critical backups. Most of our backups go to tape
I'm looking for the best way to transport the catalog to the DR appliance and I had almost given up on AIR replication until I saw this response by Mark_Solutions (apologies to Mark if this is out of context!) - http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/catalog-recovery-through-air
Catalog replication via AIR is supported these days as long as source and target master are on exactly the same version of NetBackup (otherwise the replication works but the import fails)
In my experince it has been used when only one site has access to tape so that the second site can import the catalog backup and then duplicate it to tape
Really not sure that i would want to use it on the DR site when that is already setup as a master in its own right - it does seem failrly pointless to me ot be honest - though of course totally possible with the proper planning and preparation
Just don't fancy the idea as the primary beauty of AIR was to remove the need or a catalog recovery etc. and to give immediate restore capabilities from a DR site.
I gave it a shot, set my Catalog backup to use an SLP that would replicate. The replication & import was successful and I used the initate-import function to make the make the Catalogs visible. They have not appeared
So, should this have worked, or am I on the wrong path?
thanks