[Veritas-bu] Vaulting the DB Backup
2000-02-23 19:07:03
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[Veritas-bu] Vaulting the DB Backup |
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Michael Wei wei AT colltech DOT com |
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Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:07:03 -0600 (CST) |
Use bpvault to do this, if you have bpvault. It creates its own DB
backup.
> From veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu Wed Feb 23 17:43:43 2000
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> This seems like something that ought to be somewhat common.
>
> We would like to be sending a copy of the Veritas Database offsite on a
> daily basis. Clearly we could do this in a manual process by changing the
> config on a daily basis, but we are looking for automation (after all we
> have a HUGE L11000 Tape Library).
>
> I see that there is a script "/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/dbbackup_notify" that
> is called with the tape ID for the last DB backup. This would seem like the
> place some cleverness, so I'm just looking to see if anyone has done this
> before.
>
> The steps seem to me to be:
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> Edit /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/dbbackup_notify so that it creates and script
> that will be run when you want to vault (if it were to vault every time it
> would be way to often).
>
> The vault script would:
>
> = Mount the last DB Backup tape and a blank tape (does this come from the
> scratch pool?)
> = Then using dd to tar(?) make a copy
> (I don't think we want to use bpduplicate since this is a DB tape).
> = Then eject the copy and return the original to the library
>
> Simple, no?
>
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