On 6 Jan 2005, at 17:36, Ed Wilts wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:33:48PM +0000, James Pattinson wrote:
>> We have a BCV that gets split for backup and resynched afterwards by
>> the ServerFree agent, but it would be nice if the data didn't get
>> resynched so we could restore from it.
>
> You can't be part of the BCV unless you're synched so what you need to
> do is not do an establish at the end.

Perhaps I was using the wrong terminology, yes that's exactly what we 
are trying to acomplish.

> What we did here (before we got rid of our Symmetrix) was to manually
> re-establish the mirror some period of time before the backup window
> started and mount the disk on the right host.  At the completion of the
> backup, we would leave it split.  That way it's available for restores
> most of the day.  We did not use any special NetBackup tools - just raw
> cron jobs that synced the volumes, put the databases into hotbackup
> mode, split, and mounted the volumes.

We will probably go for a scripted solution if AIO isn't able to meet 
our needs. It would probably be more flexible anyway :)

Thanks

James