Re: [Veritas-bu] What are your thoughts on filesystem monitoring?
2008-11-06 17:20:37
I concur with Ed. By default I don’t exclude anything as I
don’t control the applications and changes made to them and have found
that covering my back is most important. The issue does arise, as Ed mentioned,
when they add new drives in a cluster but I think that the new 6.5 client
addresses that issue with a Netbackup cluster resource.
Regards.
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On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:58 PM, MPish44 <netbackup-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
wrote:
My thought is while that is great perhaps its time to move
to an "excludes" type of system, granted its a manual effort across
hundreds of Unix servers and we will probably have to manage the excludes in
many the same ways...
By default, a file system usually needs to be backed up. You may have bad
backups if it happens to contain something like an Oracle database, and you
won't have an application-consistent backup, but at least you'll have
something.
It definitely gets harder with active/passive clusters since NetBackup doesn't
really support them very well, but something is better than nothing. When
your admins tell you how the file system really needs to be handled, you can
adjust your backup policies to do the right thing. By if they forget to
tell you anything at all, at worst case you'll have a generic file system
backup.
We tend to do most of our backups with a generic all_local_drives type of
policy coupled with some exclude for things like database volumes, and then use
application-specific policies to cover them.
Simple is always good. The less you have to muck with it, the more likely
you are to be successful.
.../Ed
Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE
ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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