I think the only issue is if backups are in progress while the db is
being backed up.  Those catalogues would be unuseable from a recovery
standpoint but all other catalogues would be fine.

In some cases it's not really a problem.  I do it manually (cron) after
my offsite backups are finished and during weekdays.  On weekdays no
backups are going on except a few database logs here and there, and
after offsite backups I don't care if other catalogues are backed up or
not since I only care about the ones that have already completed.

~JK

"Raghavan, Shyam" wrote:
> 
> David,
> 
> Interesting. that was a good piece of information. I have been running the
> Netbackup DB backup through Cron and occasionally, when people run manual
> backups,  it used to run the backup job  along with the DB backup.
> 
> If that is not a normal operation, then I would like to know how do I
> suspend the request daemon
> 
> Thanks,
> Shyam.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: david AT dsihost-srv01 DOT com [mailto:david AT dsihost-srv01 DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 9:59 AM
> To: Whelan, Patrick
> Cc: Veritas-Bu (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpbackupdb confirmation
> 
> Patrick,
> 
> The primary difference is this.
> 
> When NBU runs it via its automatic schedule, it causes bprd to suspend its
> ability to submit any jobs to the queue (actually it suspends its ability to
> 
> wake-up bpsched that looks for something to do).  So if no backup jobs are
> running then your database will be in a quieted state suitable for a proper
> backup.
> 
> When you run it manually, bprd is not suspended and jobs may potentially be
> submitted during the backup putting it in a questionable state.  You will
> have
> to manually suspend the request daemon.
> 
> David
> 
> Quoting "Whelan, Patrick" <Patrick.Whelan AT commerzbankib DOT com>:
> 
> > Can someone please explain what differences there are between running
> > bpbackupdb manually and letting NBU run it. Also is there a difference
> from
> > running it from session_notify or cron? Any help would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Patrick Whelan
> > Commerzbank
> > Frankfurt, Germany
> > +49 69 136.44927
> >
> > Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
> >
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