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  2. NetBackup and NetBackup Appliances Hardening Guide
  3. Steps to protect NetBackup
  4. About protecting the MSDP catalog
NetBackup and NetBackup Appliances Hardening Guide

About protecting the MSDP catalog

To increase availability, NetBackup provides a two-tier approach to protect the MSDP catalog, as follows:

Daily shadow copies

NetBackup automatically creates copies of the MSDP catalog.

See About the MSDP shadow catalog.

Catalog backup policy

Cohesity provides a utility that you can use to configure a NetBackup policy that backs up the MSDP catalog.

See About the MSDP catalog backup policy.

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