Paul Keating wrote:

>You're likely doing "normal" backups, and not trying to backup a split
>mirror.
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>Some cases when you might backup a split mirror would be if you want to
>back up a database, or directory, ensuring youo're getting all files in
>sync. You would quiesce any processes using the disk, then split off the
>mirror......the database or application would continue running on the
>original plex, and you could backup the plex that was split off without
>fear of an application tweaking the data during the backup.
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>Paul
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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 
>>Sean Clarke
>>Sent: August 2, 2005 6:40 PM
>>To: 'BeDour, Wayne'; 'Veritas List'
>>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Solaris 9 submirrors
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>>I don't understand this, we have an environment with a 
>>Solaris Master, a
>>mixture of Solaris and HP-UX media servers and backup Solaris, HP-UX,
>>Linux and Windows clients without having to resort to this. Surely the
>>Netbackup processes on the Client are the only things that really need
>>to understand it's filesystem. By the time you get to the Media/Master
>>server, surely you are just writing tar files?
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>>Have I missed something?
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I may sound daft, but is this normal? I backup unix systems and am 
worrying now data i backup may not be worth much.

How does netbackup handle open files or files which are being written 
to? Does it just not back them up and give a status 1 ( because i dont 
have many status 1 at all ) or does it back it up and lock it?

Cheers
Dave