The most important backup you can take is the one you make
very regularly of your database (/usr/OV/databases/openview).
Back that up to disk (using tar) regularly, and make sure that is
picked up by whatever strategy you  use when backing up to
tape.

Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking


Hi Gord,

We have our Netview server that runs a few different applications as well.
The best thing for us was to seperate each of these applications to their
own
volume groups i.e. we ended up with:
rootvg
netmanvg
arsvg

We do a monthly mksysb of the system (backups up rootvg), since the OS
barely
changes.
Then we use an application called "Legato NetWorker" that backs up all the
data files
e.g. incremental backups during the week and a full system backup once over
the weekend.  The application simplifies the way we schedule our backups,
since we can change the schedule to whatever time(s) suites us best.

Hope this helps :)

Kind regards.





Gord Michaels wrote:

> Hello All.
>
> We have the following:
>
> Netview 5.1.1, AIX 4.2.1, Framework 3.6.1, Nways 2.0
>
> I have a couple of questions...
>
> 1. I have only one volume group (rootvg) with various logical volumes.
> Should I have created two VGs instead of just using one? Is there any
> advantage, what is usually done here for a Netview install?
>
> 2. I am trying to devise a backup strategy for my system. I realize that
I
> can do a mksysb regularly, but if I just wanted to backup my Netview,
what
> filesystems should I backup? Does anyone have a good backup strategy out
> there?
>
> Any information appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Gord Michaels.
>
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