Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU catalog backups hot vs cold

For those of us who never have quiet time to run a known good catalog backup, this has been a godsend. We've been running normal cold backups while other backups are running because we had no choice.

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Subject	[Veritas-bu] NBU catalog backups hot vs cold

guys i'm newish to version 6 and one of the big things is it's ability to run hot catalogue backups. Im on solaris with various media servers yada yada I'm just confused as to why running a hot catalogue backup, potentially when other backups are running, is a good thing? I have the catalogues cold backed up when scheduled backups have finished. This runs automatically. I also do a second catalogue backup to disk (invoked from a script calling bpbackupdb -dpath) which waits until any job has finished before running. I just assume this is the best way as you get an up to date latest catalogue backup after the nights backups have finished. Can someone enlighten me or point me to a white paper as to why the hot method is better? I'm sure it is i just can't get it into my small head why at the mo :) Cheers _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

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