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[Veritas-bu] bpbackupdb specific tape

2001-03-15 10:07:55
Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpbackupdb specific tape
From: Beal, James jbeal AT adaptivebroadband DOT com
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:07:55 -0000
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Worman [mailto:rworman AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: 15 March 2001 14:57
> To: Beal, James; 'clifford thurber'; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] bpbackupdb specific tape
> 
> 
> >After having lots of problems with corrupt databases
> I now do this.
> >
> >1 database backup is to tape. 
> >1 database backup to disc.
> >Back the disc backup to a separate class.
> 
> ahhh, paranoia with the database backups - I like it!
> 
> But how do you keep track of that last one (the disc
> backup to a separate class) should you ever need to
> restore from it?  Assuming a total loss of
> /usr/openv/netbackup/db/, you won't be able to fire up
> the GUI and browse for the files you want, nor will
> you know what tape your data lives on.  
> 
> Perhaps you write to a special set of tapes? Or better
> yet you periodically print out a bpimagelist and file
> it away?

        Not quite that paranoid but the information is emailed to a group,
kept on a email server, duplicated to my portable as an offline folder. Oh
the database is on a RAID set as is the backup.




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