Depends what's actually on that NFS mount.

Assuming that the DBAs are writing their own database backups to the NFS share, 
then yes you could mount and back them up via your NBU host provided you can 
reliably schedule/check that the Oracle backup has finished first, before NBU 
attempts to pick them up.

(Happy for anyone else to step in and correct if I've got this horribly wrong.)

Luke

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] SAN Options???

I have a customer that is moving to an EMC CNX 5700 which I guess will act as 
and NFS Server (I've never seen this EMC Array). The array will share out a 
volume to Oracle servers via an NFS mount. The individual servers will write to 
this volume via NFS, which they will want to backup via Netbackup.

Looking for options on how to do this. The customer is thinking he can NFS 
mount the volume to the Master Server and back it up that way. Nice and simple 
but I am concerned about open files.

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