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Re: [Veritas-bu] open files to be backed up

2010-03-22 10:53:04
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] open files to be backed up
From: "Lightner, Jeff" <jlightner AT water DOT com>
To: "WEAVER, Simon \(external\)" <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net>, "Whelan, Patrick" <patrick.whelan AT lloydsbanking DOT com>, <VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:52:23 -0400

Right – wasn’t saying it was the best way to do things – just that it could be done.  

 

Here we actually do backups of filesystem mounts of BCV copies of our main Production (Oracle) DB so don’t have to take it down. 

 

We do have a couple of large ancillary DBs such as data warehouse that can be taken down over weekends so do backups directly from those.

 

I just wasn’t sure if it was possible on Windows SQL stuff as I don’t really look at it myself.

 


From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net]
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 10:48 AM
To: Lightner, Jeff; Whelan, Patrick; VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] open files to be backed up

 

You can take SQL down (stop the services) - run backup to perform a "file level" backup, but when you got a 24 x 7 environment, this is not practical.

 

Best method is to get your SQL Admin to backup the Databased to Disk, using the built in SQL Backup tool or get the MS-SQL-Server Agent option license, and apply to your NetBackup environment.

 

Live Database files, or even Personal Email folders that are in use (like .pst files) cannot be touched correctly.

Once you have got a decent backup of your SQL Files, I would EXCLUDE the files that NetBackup cannot touch, therefore giving you a STATUS 0 for your job, rather than STATUS 1 and reporting the same files being skipped.

 

Sachin - VSP / VSS would not help in this occasion (same as Oracle, SAP, Exchange, SQL, ect).

 

Anyhow, get your SQL DBA Administrator to configure the backups inside SQL Server Express (or Standard, enterprise) and go from there.

 

Regards

Simon

 


From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Lightner, Jeff
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 2:37 PM
To: Whelan, Patrick; VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] open files to be backed up

I don’t know how it works on Windows since we use the SQL agents but on UNIX/Linux you can backup database files from the filesystem so long as the database is down at the time you do it.  You can then restore from that backup to the same filesystems or to an alternate server and/or filesystems.


From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Whelan, Patrick
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 10:10 AM
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] open files to be backed up

It's not a matter of whether you can or can not backup an open file, it's the type of open file that you are backing up. If it is a database file and the database isn't aware that you are backing up its file the file will not be in a state that the database can use if/when you restore it. MOST database consist of more than one file so the current file that is being backed up will be in one state whereas the next file will be in a different state and so on. So that when the files are restored they will all be in different "positions" and the database won't know how to reconcile that difference. Database can be backed up without agents but the database must be in control of the backup in order to insure a stable environment for the restore. I hope this makes sense.

Regards,

Patrick Whelan
NetBackup Specialist
Wholesale Markets and Treasury & Trading
Lloyds Banking Group
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From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan
Sent: 22 March 2010 14:04
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] open files to be backed up

Didn’t Curtis’ book include some information on backing up databases without the database agent?

I was waiting for the plug. =P

-Jonathan

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of SACHIN ARORA
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:01 AM
To: Justin Piszcz
Cc: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] open files to be backed up

Thanks for replying...

 Hovewer, i'm kinda illetrate in this...can you elaborate "you need a connector to backup databases"

 Can't these filed be backed up via open file file backup (VSS/VSP)

Regards

Sachin



 

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com> wrote:

Hi,

MDF is a SQL Server Express DB file, you will have problems backing them up if they keep changing when you back them up.  Usually you need a connector to backup databases.

Justin.



On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, SACHIN ARORA wrote:

Hi All,

I have a small issue here :


Backup of one of the server is getting partially successfull

Master : Solaris 10 , netbackup 6.5.4
Client : window 2003 , netbackup 6.5.4

Here the files that are not getting backed up :

03/19/2010 21:31:38 - Warning bpbrm (pid=14837) from client : WRN - can't
open file: D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\MSSQL\Data\Audit_DB_Data.MDF (WIN32 32: The process cannot access the
file because it is being used by another process. )
03/19/2010 21:31:39 - Warning bpbrm (pid=14837) from client : WRN - can't
open file: D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data\Audit_DB_Log.LDF
(WIN32 32: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
another process. )
03/19/2010 21:31:40 - Warning bpbrm (pid=14837) from client : WRN - can't
open file: D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data\crnmr4_Data.MDF
(WIN32 32: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
another process. )
03/19/2010 21:31:41 - Warning bpbrm (pid=14837) from client : WRN - can't
open file: D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data\crnmr4_Log.LDF
(WIN32 32: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
another process. )
03/19/2010 21:31:41 - Warning bpbrm (pid=14837) from client : WRN - can't
open file: D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data\master.mdf
(WIN32 32: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
another process. )
03/19/2010 21:31:42 - Warning bpbrm (pid=14837) from client : WRN - can't
open file: D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data\mastlog.ldf
(WIN32 32: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
another process. )
03/19/2010 21:31:43 - Warning bpbrm (pid=14837) from client : WRN - can't
open file: D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data\model.mdf (WIN32
32: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another
process. )
03/19/2010 21:31:44 - Warning bpbrm (pid=14837) from client : WRN - can't
open file: D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data\modellog.ldf
(WIN32 32: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
another process. )
03/19/2010 21:31:45 - Warning bpbrm (pid=14837) from client : WRN - can't
open file: D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data\msdbdata.mdf
(WIN32 32: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
another process. )
03/19/2010 21:31:46 - Warning bpbrm (pid=14837) from client : WRN - can't
open file: D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data\msdblog.ldf
(WIN32 32: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
another process. )
03/19/2010 21:59:29 - end writing; write time: 0:58:17
the requested operation was partially successful (1)

I want these files to be backed up. I tried
Disabled Open file backup and refired backup - -- still didnot backup these
files
Selcted -- Enabled VSP , Individual drive snapshot, Abort on error --
refired backup -- still didnot backup these files
Selcted -- Enabled VSS , Individual drive snapshot, Abort on error --
refired backup -- still didnot backup these files

Can sombody help me how to get these files to be backed up. its a production
server , need to fix this quickly

Thanks
Sachin



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