On HP-UX,

create a cron job which makes an LVM snapshot of your MQ directories.  
Then mount this LVM snapshot somewhere and back the snapshot up ?

I suppose AIX also has snapshot capabilities..

greetings
seb


Quoting briandiven at northwesternmutual.com:

> I am running NBU 5.1 MP5 on HP-UX servers and we backup MQSeries which
> is on both AIX and HP-UX platforms.  We have had limited success doing
> BCP recovery tests.  Some research identified an IBM Redbook
> SG24-5222-00 which says the MQSeries Queue Managers need to be shut down
> prior to being backed up.  This is not conducive to our environment
> which requires the production queue mgrs to be up 24/7.  We do have
> maintenance zones and could possibly get good backups every week or two,
> but this also isn't acceptable.
>
> Does anyone have any other ideas?  I have not seen a Symantec agent for
> this to do hot backups.
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