Folks, Any of you esteemed folks using TSM to backup/restore UNIDATA or other implementations of a PICK database? Specifically, are you using the dbpause and dbresume commands? Easy, hard, impossible
Author: "Wilkinson, Brent" <BWilkinson AT COBANK DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:38:08 -0600
Yes, we backup multiple UNIDATA DB's here by pausing the DB during the backup process. It works well as we restore the DB's to the development systems without issue on a regular basis. Folks, Any of
Kelly, Our Unidata database is backed up with TSM and as you've suggested the dbpause and dbresume are used to ensure a good backup. A TSM prebackup script pauses the database, takes a snapshot of th
The environment under scrutiny here is Unidata on Solaris. We, too, want to do the snapshot thing to minimize the downtime. Seems like this is pretty darn straightforward? Kelly J. Lipp VP Manufactur