Check with ovstatus: netmon, ovwdb, and ovtopmd get paused. nvhotbackup is
a script, so you can see that it does a pause and a resume.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
"Michael J.
Freeman" To:
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<mfreeman@wamnet. cc: "'Seminara, Sandro'"
<SSeminara@fnis.com>
com> Subject: RE: [nv-l] Configuring
backups for NetView 7.1.2 / 7.1.3
09/26/2003 03:29
PM
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
Michael J. Freeman
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-----Original Message-----
From: Seminara, Sandro [mailto:SSeminara@fnis.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@wamnet.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
Michael J. Freeman
WAM!Net Government Services (http://www.wamnet.com)
C: 612.384.2517 W: 651.256.5464
-----Original Message-----
From: Seminara, Sandro [mailto:SSeminara@fnis.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:01 PM
To: 'Michael J. Freeman'; nv-l@lists.tivoli.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@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)
C: 612.384.2517 W: 651.256.5464
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