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How a Centralized Catalog Database Works

When operating in a centralized management environment (a primary server and one or more member server), Arcserve Backup centralizes all catalog files into the primary server. As a result, the catalog database files created on a member server during a backup job will be transferred (when the backup is complete) to the catalog database folder located on the associated primary server. In this way, the performance of merging and browsing catalog files that are always local to the primary server will be significantly improved and the maintenance of catalog database, such as pruning and backing up tasks will be simplified and be done only from the primary server.

The Arcserve Backup centralized catalog database helps you manage enterprise-level, multi-server environments. You can browse media information or generate reports for multiple servers at the same time. The member servers in your network update the central Arcserve Backup catalog database with media session information and details from their own database. The central catalog database is set up locally on a machine that manages the centralized catalog database. Media session information for all of the Arcserve Backup machines in your enterprise is contained there.