Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU catalog backups hot vs cold
2008-09-25 14:04:21
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:07:15PM +0100, Dave Markham wrote:
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> I'm just confused as to why running a hot catalogue backup, potentially
> when other backups are running, is a good thing?
Because you can.
If your catalog backup takes 6 hours, and you don't have 6 hours of
downtime from backups, it's going to be hard to accomplish.
> I have the catalogues cold backed up when scheduled backups have
> finished. This runs automatically.
Not everyone has a time when scheduled backups finish.
> I just assume this is the best way as you get an up to date latest
> catalogue backup after the nights backups have finished.
You can run the hot backup at the same time.
> Can someone enlighten me or point me to a white paper as to why the hot
> method is better?
You can run cold backup when other backups aren't running.
You can run hot backup when other backups aren't running, or if they
are.
--
Darren
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