I know this is heresy, but I do not worry about stopping Netview to take a
database backup. If it is reasonably quiet, eg no user is in the middle of
a cut/paste operation, it is safe enough to take a tar backup of the map
database while the daemons are running. If you have to restore from such
a backup, of course, you will close all maps and stop all daemons. But
if you want to schedule a backup for the middle of the night and don't want
to take the daemons and maps down, I would just do it. I am speaking
only of the flat file database here, of course. This sort of a backup is
much
better than no backup.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
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If you use Oracle for the database, there is a product called SQL BackTrack
(by
BMC I believe) that can do a hot backup of your database.
We don't use a SQL database though for performance reasons, so we took
another
tack as our users want it available as much as possible (which I assume is
your
situation as well). We have some spare disk on our NetView server, so we
do a
TAR backup of Netview configuration files and databases every night
disk-to-disk, which is pretty quick. We then bring NetView backup, and we
can
then archive the tar file to tape anytime after that. We are down maybe 15
minutes a day.
HTH
Dean
John Haskins <john.haskins@COMMSERV.UCSB.EDU> on 02/16/2000 11:49:07 AM
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Subject: nv6000/AIX backups
Has anyone got a trick or a product to let us back up our
RS6000 without doing an ovstop first?
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