Well, that depends on what you are afraid of losing. NetView is in /usr/OV and
you can see where most of the Framework is by echoing $BINDIR. Most folks
backup their system at least once, especially after thay have cutomized files in
/usr/OV/conf, but if they have customized maps or very dynamic environments,
they backup
their databases regularly, probably weekly.
Since many users do this already, I was expecting someone else to tell you their
procedures, but I can tell you that this is easily accomplised. What you must
do is stop at least netmon and snmpCollect, and then backup the entire
/usr/OV/databases/openview directory. All of it. The object database,
topology database, and map datbase are all tied together and should not be dealt
with separately.
There are several ways to backup /usr/OV/databases/openview. You can use tar,
but as these are sparse file systems, restoring with tar will cause them to use
more space than they did originally. To avoid this you can use pax to restore
them.
For example, you could do this
cd /usr/OV/databases/openview
tar -cvf <filename> * this tars up everything into
your file
pax -vf <filename> (same as tar -tvf <filename>) you can use pax or
tar to see the contents of your file
pax -rp e -f <filename> (like tar -xvf <filename>) restore with
pax and don't forget the 'e' option to restore the permissions.
When you restore all the daemons should be down.
Hope this helps
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
"Spencer, Betty" <bspenc02 AT HARRIS DOT COM> on 11/19/99 09:46:22 AM
Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
<NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU>
To: NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
cc: (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject: NetView Backup for Solaris
Hi,
We are running NetView 5.1 on Solaris 2.7.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to which files I should be backing up? The
mksysbk command is only available for AIX. Even a pointer to where I can read
about this would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Betty Spencer
Harris Corporation
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