[Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery

Jason
Yes will never see a Cat Backup queue - reason being is it waits until all
scheduled jobs are completed.
Also, if you attempt to run a Cat backup during a normal policy backup, I
believe it will wait.

The idea behind the integrity of the Cat DB is to ensure nothing else IS
running, while this takes place!

Good Luck :-)

Simon Weaver 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brooks, Jason [mailto:brooksje AT longwood DOT edu] 
Sent: 10 February 2006 14:48
To: Paul Keating; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery


Sounds pretty close to my setup, except we don't use Veritas VR. Another
thing I mentioned is querying for running backup jobs.  I don't recall
seeing a Catalog Backup queuing before, but in my environment it wouldn't.
I just wouldn't want my Catalog to start with a drive occupied, or a disk
staging backup occurring.  So, I'll have the extra step in a script to do
some level of a nbdbjobs to see what's happening. But the output isn't
pretty.

Jason 

-----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 Paul 
Keating
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:43 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery

I just started thinking recently about using it to automate the offsite copy
of my catalog.

Currently netbackup is backing up the catalog to two tapes in the local
library, and the catalog is replicated using Veritas Volume Replicator to
the standby system at my DR site, as well as any manual intervention
required to make sure a catalog tape is offsite as well.....but since I'm
already FC connected to the library at the DR site, I've been looking at
writing a script to do a bpbackupdb to a tape in the remote library on a
regular basis as well....though from the looks of it, it will require
scripting something to load the tape into a drive, identify the drive, pass
that back to the bpbackupdb, etc, etc....and I've had more pressing issues
to deal with. ;o)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brooks, Jason [mailto:brooksje AT longwood DOT edu]
> Sent: February 10, 2006 9:32 AM
> To: Paul Keating; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery
> 
> 
> Paul,
>       Thanks for the tip.  That, along with bpdbjobs to look for
running 
> backups will go a long wat to automating this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
> -----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 Paul
> Keating
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:12 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery
> 
> bash-2.03# man bpbackupdb
> 
> > -----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 Brooks,
> > Jason
> > Sent: February 10, 2006 9:10 AM
> > To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Backups for Disaster Recovery
> > 
> > 
> > As I can see it now, there is no way to schedule another catalog
> > backup, say every Sunday at 3AM.  Correct?  Is there any
> other way to,
> 
> > say by script, to kick off said job type?
> 

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