Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up SQL and Transaction logs?

Yeah, I'm finding that out as well.
I'll be using this information as I continue my proof of concept.

Thank you very much for the information.

Regards,
John Keating
Information Technology
Tachi-S Engineering U.S.A. Inc.

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10/14/2009 08:55 AM

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Hello John
No particular reason. In fact 12 was incorrect, it was actually 5 hours - The backup window for the Full is 12 hours. So a mistype on my part.

What happens is this:

1) Full Backup runs
2) Logs captured at a later time once the full has been given time to complete.

I must admit, I have not seen the files truncate very well with NetBackup.
Simon

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Hello Simon,
Thanks for the reply and yes it does answer my question.
While reading through the admin guide I think I've come to the same conclusion.

Can I ask why you run the log backup's 12 hours after and not sooner? I would think that I would want to grab the logs ASAP after a "Full" in order to truncate and file away.
Thanks again.

Regards,
John Keating
Information Technology
Tachi-S Engineering U.S.A. Inc.

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John
Maybe I am doing it wrong, but this is what I do ...

1) Single .bch file called "SQL_Backup.bch" with the following:
OPERATION BACKUP
DATABASE $ALL
SQLHOST "<CLIENT>"
NBSERVER "<MASTER_NBU>"
MAXTRANSFERSIZE 0
BLOCKSIZE 7
ENDOPER TRUE

This is created for a policy called "SQL_FULL_BACKUPS". This allows me to do a FULL Online SQL DB Backup of all DB's

Now for the Transaction logs, I do the following:
1) Single .bch file called "SQL_Backup_TXLogs.bch" with the following:
OPERATION BACKUP
DATABASE $ALL
SQLHOST "<Client>"
NBSERVER "<MASTER_NBU>"
MAXTRANSFERSIZE 0
BLOCKSIZE 7
OBJECTTYPE TRXLOG
ENDOPER TRUE
This is then created for a second policy called "SQL_TX_LOGS" and runs AFTER the full SQL Backup has run (usually 12 hours after the SQL Full Backup Window starts).

I have had to restore SQL from the Full and Logs, and the DBA's have never complained.
I read through the SQL Admin guide to get most of this done.

Does this make sence, or answer your questions?
Simon

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up SQL and Transaction logs?

Hello All,
I've been backing up several SQL servers for quite some time now and through re-creating a "disaster recovery" situation and reading through SAP section of the NetBackup SQL Admin guide I notice the section for backing up transaction logs.
After going through the SQL transaction log creation wizard, I verified the changes in that batch file to my original "Full" SQL batch file that I've been using.
The changes were these 2 lines:
BROWSECLIENT "CLIENT_NAME"
OBJECTTYPE TRXLOG

Am I correct to think that without these 2 lines in my batch file that a complete restore of the databases for SAP or otherwise would not happen?
Should I simply add these 2 lines to my original batch file?

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
John Keating
Information Technology
Tachi-S Engineering U.S.A. Inc.

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