Oh yeah!

Don't think Disaster, just deletion...or corruption...or ???.

Just like anything else, you might accidentally delete one of these files.
Its much simpler to do a restore than it is to recover the entire imageDB.

I would definitely keep this in your backup rotation...

David

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-----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 Jeff
Kennedy
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 3:16 PM
To: NBU List
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] master server backup


I am re-posting this since I did not get any responses initially.  May
have gotten lost in the shuffle....

Thanks.

~JK

Jeff Kennedy wrote:
>
> I think this topic was covered once before but now I can't find it.  Is
> there a real benefit to backing up the /usr/openv partition on the
> master backup server given the following:
>
> weekly tapes are sent offsite
> catalogue tapes are sent offsite with their respective tapes
> a copy of the image list is sent offsite with the tapes
>
> With the above list I can recover anything providing the backups are
> good.  Do I really gain anything by backing up /usr/openv since
> everything I need will A) be re-installed with NBU when I re-build
> (assuming DR) and 2) be contained in the catalogue tape or C) be
> granularly recoverable with the image list?
>
> Thanks for input.
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