We are closer.  here is what is planned.  I'm looking for better ideas.

  Major Update job finishes and leaves a completed file on the system.

  4 am job scheduler stop oracle loop (if completed file is on system)

  Set the netbackup schedule to start from 4 till 12 on Saturday

  bpstart_notify will poll oracle from 4 till 12 on Saturday.
    if stopped proceed with the backup.
    else many ugly emails.

because we use multiplexing we will run many instances of bpstart_notify.
I really doesn't matter but it would be nice to only run one.

Also we will have to increase the time for BPSTART_TIMEOUT to 36000
This is normally a ten hour window on Saturday when the backups start.

>From   Scott Deiter
        Hanover Direct, Inc.
        Tech services
        (717) 633-3298
        scottd AT hanoverdirect DOT com



-----Original Message-----
From: Deiter Scott [mailto:scottd AT HanoverDirect DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 2:59 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] User backup necessary ?


We need to backup up our dataware house client.
  Sun Ultra / Solaris 9
  Netbackup 4.5
  0.8Tbyte of oracle to be cold backup
The master server is the same platform/os.  In order to stop oracle we need
a script on the Client.  So scheduling the backup does not make sense due to
timing errors.  Trying to create a script on the client to use the bpbackup
command.
We will need to use the -f filelist option.  So how do we set the excludes?
I did create an exclude_list.TestBarney on our test machine.  it does not
appear that the exclude file was used during the test backup.  looking at
the docs for bpbackup I can not find any mention of excludes.

So  Does this really work?

OR

Is there a better way other than rman ?


>From   Scott Deiter
        Hanover Direct, Inc.
        Tech services
        (717) 633-3298
        scottd AT hanoverdirect DOT com

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