Does anyone know what actually gets paused when you execute a NetView backup? Will snmpcollect still be collecting data and populating a database?

 

Thanks,

Mike

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Seminara, Sandro [mailto:SSeminara AT fnis DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 2:36 PM
To: 'Michael J. Freeman'
Subject: RE: [nv-l] Configuring backups for NetView 7.1.2 / 7.1.3

 

I did a restore before, but don't have the documentation available on how I did it.  My suggestion is to give Tivoli support a call, assuming you have a support contract.  If I find it today I'll email you today.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael J. Freeman [mailto:mfreeman AT wamnet DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 2:34 PM
To: 'Seminara, Sandro'
Subject: RE: [nv-l] Configuring backups for NetView 7.1.2 / 7.1.3

 

Hey Thanks a lot.

 

This is exactly what I'm looking for. Do you have any procedures on how to do a restore though?

 

Thanks,

Mike

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Seminara, Sandro [mailto:SSeminara AT fnis DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:01 PM
To: 'Michael J. Freeman'; nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
Subject: RE: [nv-l] Configuring backups for NetView 7.1.2 / 7.1.3

 

Mike,

 

            We run nvhotbackup every evening before our scheduled backup window.

When the Hot Backup kicks off all the X11 GUI's go into a locked state until the backup is done.  Any open GUI's receive a popup that states a backup is being done and then when completed the popup disappears.

 

Here is the command we run.

 

/usr/OV/bin/nvhotbackup -d /usr/OV/DB-BACKUP/ -f dbbackup.tar

 

This is cron'ed to run at 12:05 am and completes by 12:10am

 

Furthermore at 1:00am NetBackup is kicked off and picks up all files saved under /usr/OV/

 

Thank you,

Sandro P. Seminara

FNIS

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael J. Freeman [mailto:mfreeman AT wamnet DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 12:39 PM
To: nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
Subject: [nv-l] Configuring backups for NetView 7.1.2 / 7.1.3

 

Hi,

I am trying to find out how to properly backup NetView 7.1.2. It seems there are 2 different ways, one method is going through the GUI and navigating to the backup menu, and starting a backup that way. It appears the command that gets run is this :

 

/usr/OV/install/tools/nvp.v7r1 save -p '/usr/OV/ALL.USER' -vg 'none' 'no_replace'

 

This command requires that the GUI be shut down however. I am wondering if there is a way to do the backups without having to kill the GUI, as we run the GUI on several consoles inside NOC's throughout the world and it would be a pain in the ass to have to go and restart "ovw" on each of the clients.

 

The second program I found, 'nvhotbackup' (/usr/OV/bin/nvhotbackup) looks like it does a similar thing. It does an ovpause and then does the backups and then does ovresume. I am pretty sure this also kills the gui.

 

What kills ME is that IBM Tivoli has provided no means to RESTORE from the data that you backed up. I cannot find any tools or scripts inside the distribution or from the GUI, nor can I find any documentation related to it, and IBM support has basically given me no help.

 

I am curious if any people on this list have had any similar expierences, and if so, what they did to get around them, or what they ended up implementing. Also, I am going ot be using Veritas NetBackup to do this and I would also like to know if anyone has done this and how they were able to automate it.

 

Thanks in advance,

Mike

 

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