Well, by the name "nvdb" it appears that somebody might have done some kind of
database backup at one time, but there is nothing standard about this. These
may not be related to NetView at all, because backup files could be called
anything at all and kept in any directory you like. And there are no NetView
utilities to do backups, people use tar or the AIX backup/restore function.
Are you able to determine just what kind of files these are? Try using tar
tar -tvf usr/local/backups/nvdb.bak01
and see what you get. Can tar read it? Or try restore
restore -T usr/local/backups/nvdb.bak01
and see if it can read what you have.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
Daniel_Casey@MAIL.JBHUNT.COM on 09/21/99 04:20:26 PM
Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
<NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
cc: (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject: Re: netview error...
Sorry, one more question. What are these files in
/usr/local/backups:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 6840320 Dec 03 1998 nvdb.bak01
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 6881280 Dec 03 1998 nvdb.bak02
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 8069120 Dec 04 1998 nvdb.bak03
Can I use these for anything?
Daniel
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