Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] scheduling question

2004-08-26 16:45:28
Subject: [Veritas-bu] scheduling question
From: tech2187 AT yahoo DOT com (K Chapman)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:45:28 -0700 (PDT)
are the dba's using rman?  
are you also using a recovery catalog?

--- "Edelson, Tracie" <tracie.edelson AT attws DOT com>
wrote:

> Currently, our Oracle database backup schedules are
> being "managed" by
> the database administrators. We provide one schedule
> that calls their
> "wrapper" script -- this script determines, based on
> the day of the
> week, if a full, diff or cumulative to run. It is
> very basic and does
> not account for failed backups - if a full fails to
> run, it will not run
> until the next scheduled day.
>  
> We are investigating NetBackup's ability to tie in
> directly with the
> rman utility to run and schedule backups -- so, if a
> full fails to run
> on Monday, it will automatically be rerun the next
> window (probably the
> next day). However, with frequency based backups,
> this will of course
> effectively move the full backup day from Monday to
> Tuesday until the
> next failure moves it again. This is not the
> behavior the DBA's want --
> they want it to run on Sundays except in the case of
> a failure in which
> case it should rerun at the next window -- but then
> would run on Sundays
> again after the failed backup completes.
>  
> Other than running the job manually after a failure,
> doe anyone have any
> suggestions?
>  
> Thanx!
> Tracie Edelson
> Unix Systems Administrator
> MMS Operations
> ATTWS
> <mailto:tracie.edelson AT attws DOT com>  
>  
> 


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