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[Veritas-bu] backing up netbackup database over NDMP

2000-05-30 13:20:57
Subject: [Veritas-bu] backing up netbackup database over NDMP
From: Michael Wei wei AT colltech DOT com
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 12:20:57 -0500 (CDT)
Unfortunately that won't work for netbacup database backup if you specify
the DB backup path to be <Netapp hostname>:<dbpath>.  The host where the DB
backup path is specified must be a box that runs bpbackup command locally.


--Mike


> From veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu  Tue May 30 11:45:03 2000
> 
> That certainly explains why it takes so long.  
> 
> Until I can finagle anther DLT drive, what do you think of the idea of
> copying /usr/openv/netbackup/db etc. over to a directory each night on
> the filer and then aiming the backup database to that to be backed up?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -C.
> 
> 
> MW> Get an extra tape drive in the library that you can connect Sun
> MW> box to it.  It's not good idea at all to backup data remotely to
> MW> an NDMP drive.  NDMP allows another NDMP host to write things to
> MW> tape drive remotely block by block.  This is how Netbackup lables
> MW> tapes (and read those labels) on an NDMP drive, and how Netbackup
> MW> appends the TIR information to a tape in an NDMP drive after an
> MW> NDMP backup.
> 
> CEB> I'm running NetBackup on a solaris box, backing up a NetApp filer via
> CEB> NDMP to a tape library.  The regular backups work fine but when it
> CEB> comes time to backup the NetBackup database (/usr/openv/netbackup/db,
> CEB> /usr/openv/volmgr/database) that lives on the solaris box things go
> CEB> sloooow.
> CEB> 
> CEB> I know that it will be slower than the regular backups but it seems
> CEB> excessively slow.  For example it took about 30 minutes to back up 50
> CEB> megs last night.  Is this normal?
> CEB> 
> CEB> I'm not even quite sure how the data makes it to the tape drive.
> CEB> Somehow it must be sucked over to the Netapp which pushes it over to
> CEB> the tape library via NDMP.
> CEB> 
> CEB> I've thought about setting up some sort of cron job that copies the
> CEB> files from /usr/openv/... on to the filer and backing up that but it
> CEB> seemed a bit of a kludge.
> CEB> 
> CEB> Does anyone have experience with this sort of problem?
> CEB> 
> CEB> -C.
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Mike Wei       Collective Technologies, a Pencom Company
Email: wei AT colltech DOT com



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