Hi Simon,.
Thanks for the reply. I'm in no doubt whatsover of the importance of a
valid catalog backup. The reason for the issue is simple - there are
50-100+ jobs running at any time of day. There is never any inactivity for
long enough to get the 80 gigs-worth of catalog data backed up via the
normal method.
I had a long chat earlier with a ex-Veritas pal about this and he came up
with a plan as a workaround. (He called it the Devon Method, as that's
where all the best fudge is made ;-) )
Firstly, yes, backup to disk. That's easy, the database volumes are
already on SAN disk, so backup to disk is a trivial effort for us here.
Then reconfigure the catalog backups as follows:
master:/usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/master
master:/usr/openv/var
master:/usr/openv/volmgr/database
master:/usr/openv/netbackup/db/[A-Zabd-hj-z]*
This will exclude the images completely. Then configure two standard
policies to backup up the image directories ONLY as a daily FULL with a two
day retention alternating between the two. A copy could be taken to tape
and offsited from those.
How about that?
Tim Biller
Technical Specialist (Storage) (HBEU-SS-SMMIDLI)
Tel: +44 (0) 1226 353574 internal (7311 5853)
Cell: +44 (0) 7740 191329
Fax: +44 (0)1226 353368 internal (7311 3368)
"WEAVER, Simon"
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RE: [Veritas-bu] Alternate methods
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apshots?
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Tim
>From a professional point, I would be investigating EXACTLY why your
Catalog
backups are failing! This is so, so important.
Post any details onto the list, and we can all try and help.
Alternatively, I occasionly take OFFLINE backups of the Catalogue and store
them onto a drive, which in turn is placed in a safe. However, this is
really a last resort.
Can you try doing a catalog backup to DISK rather than tape (assuming that
is how you were doing it?).
Hopefully we can try and help :-)
Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
Email: Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net
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From: timbiller at hsbc.com [mailto:timbiller at hsbc.com]
Sent: 27 June 2006 10:34
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Alternate methods for catalog vackup - eg
BCVsnapshots?
Our catalog backups hardly every complete as there is never inactivity on
the Master. (5.0 MP5 on AIX 5,3)
Does anyone know of any mechanism (such as a BCV snap) to take a point in
time catalog backup and more importantly, would this actually work?
Thanks.
Tim Biller
Technical Specialist (Storage) (HBEU-SS-SMMIDLI)
Tel: +44 (0) 1226 353574 internal (7311 5853)
Cell: +44 (0) 7740 191329
Fax: +44 (0)1226 353368 internal (7311 3368)
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