NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Object Store Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Managing Cloud object store assets
- Protecting Cloud object store assets
- About accelerator support
- Managing Cloud object store policies
- Recovering Cloud object store assets
- Troubleshooting
Accelerator backup and NetBackup catalog
Use of accelerator does not affect the size of the NetBackup catalog. A full backup with accelerator generates the same catalog size as a full backup of the same data without accelerator.
The same is true of incremental backups, use of accelerator does not require more catalog space than the same backup without accelerator. A potential catalog effect does not occur, depending on how often you use accelerator with full backups.
A full backup with accelerator completes faster than a normal full backup. It may therefore look advantageous to replace your incremental backups with accelerator full backups.
Since a full backup requires more catalog space than an incremental, replacing incremental backups with full backups increases the catalog size. When changing your incremental backups to fulls, you must evaluate the advantage of accelerator full backups against the greater catalog space that full backups require as compared to incremental backups.