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[Veritas-bu] Vaulting the DB Backup

2000-02-24 10:21:56
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting the DB Backup
From: Ayaz Mudarris ayaz AT colltech DOT com
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:21:56 -0600
Look into

/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpbackupdb

USAGE: bpbackupdb [{-dpath disk_path} |
            {-tpath tape_device_path [-rv recorded_vsn]} |
            {-opath optical_device_path [-rv recorded_vsn]}]
           [-nodbpaths] [-v] [path...]



Ayaz Mudarris -  Consultant       Great Lakes Team
Collective Technologies           www.colltech.com
Austin, TX                       "Managing Systems and Networks"



> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT Eng.Auburn DOT EDU
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT Eng.Auburn DOT EDU]On Behalf Of Malcor, Daniel
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 5:37 PM
> To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting the DB Backup
>
>
>
> 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:
>
> 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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