We use Platinum's Autosys to schedule all our jobs (on AIX), so we have a
job that stops Essbase, then triggers the backup (actually, we do an
archive), then triggers a job that starts Essbase.  If you come up with a
way to do a hot backup, I'd be interested in hearing about it.

Tina Hilton
Thomson Consumer Electronics


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lancaster, Dominic [SMTP:Dominic.Lancaster AT BIMBERI.COM DOT AU]
> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 1998 6:14 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      ESSBASE Backups - how are you doing it ???
>
> Has anyone developed a good regime for ESSBASE backups,
> what are you doing and what features would you like to see
> in an ESSBASE backup ?
>
> I'm in the process of writing an API client that interfaces to the
> ESSBASE
> hot backup commands and would appreciate anyone who is
> currently using the standard client tools to make some feature
> suggestions - rather than work in isolation this could becme
> a tool that many could use
>
> Any thoughts, ideas, all acknowledged
>
>
> Dominic
>
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> Dominic Lancaster                               Bimberi Systems
> dominic AT bimberi.com DOT au