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
Michael J. Freeman
WAM!Net Government Services (http://www.wamnet.com)
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