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@wamnet.com]
Sent: Thursday,
September 25, 2003 12:39 PM
To: nv-l@lists.tivoli.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
Michael J. Freeman
WAM!Net Government Services (http://www.wamnet.com)
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