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[Veritas-bu] daily backups and catalogue backups

2001-06-29 14:42:42
Subject: [Veritas-bu] daily backups and catalogue backups
From: KCollins AT coral-energy DOT com (Collins, Kathy)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:42:42 -0500
David,

Is this a valid backup?  What if the database is active during the time
you back it up (I don't know that it ever would be).  Would the files
that you restore be valid?

Just curious!  
Thanks
Kathy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David A. Chapa [mailto:david AT xbpadm-commands DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 7:56 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] daily backups and catalogue backups
> 
> 
> I wouldn't and don't exclude them.
> 
> What if one of the images gets corrupted or deleted on 
> accident.  You can do
> a simple restore to recover that (those) files.  That's a 
> whole lot better
> than doing a db recovery from tape, because you don't have an 
> option as to
> what image you want to recover, it recovers the entire imageDB.
> 
> Just my two cents.
> 
> David
> 
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> David A. Chapa
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> DataStaff, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of
> Karl.Rossing AT Federated DOT CA
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 4:53 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] daily backups and catalogue backups
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I currently have a UNIX backup that runs every night. I did 
> not exclude
> /usr/openv/netbackup/db,  /usr/openv/volmgr/database and  
> /usr/openv/var.
> 
> I'm guessing that i can exclude the those files as long as i do a
> catalogue backup after.
> 
> Is this a good idea?
> 
> Karl
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