Sysback is a life saver here. You get a bootable tape that can restore all
your filesystems and data. If you've got sysback, I'd be happy to post a
script that will run the backup (by volume group), including bringing down
Netview EUIs/daemons and CiscoWorks daemons. We run full weekly backups with
this utility via cron.

__________________________
Thanks,
Sean Davidson

Sr. Network Systems Engineer
Publix Super Markets, Inc.
P.O. Box 32015
Lakeland, Fl. 33802-2015
Email - sean.davidson AT publix DOT com
Voice - (863) 686-8754 x6889
Fax - (863)616-5895




-----Original Message-----
From: Kuffer Andreas [mailto:Andreas.Kuffer AT KUONI DOT CH]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 4:09 AM
To: NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
Subject: NV backup on regular basis



Hi all

runing NetView 5.1.2 on AIX 4.3.2
I'm about to set up the regular backup strategy for our NetView-database.
I'd like to have this done automatically via a scheduling program. As I see
at the moment, there are two possible ways

1) using /usr/OV/install/tools/nvp.v5r1 (price is to stop all EUIs in
advance)
2) ovstop, backing up manually, ovstart (price is to acknowledge all the
daemon-down/up again messages, goodie is user's settings are not lost)

How do other admins handle this? Any ideas, suggestions?


With kind regards / mit freundlichen Gruessen

Andreas Kuffer

Kuoni Travel Ltd.
Neue Hard 7
CH-8010 Zuerich
Switzerland
Telefon : + 41 1 277 52 41
Fax     : + 41 1 272 52 55