A point about VMBACKUP, however, is that while we don't use it for DR,
we do use it. One day I was looking thru the VMBACKUP logs of what got
dumped and to my surprise, found that the VMBACKUP 1B0 disk, the
catalog, doesn't get dumped by VMBACKUP. I always knew that it would be
kind of a fuzzy backup but I figured better that than nothing. Now I
run a separate ddr dump of the VMBACKUP mdisks after VMBACKUP is
finished. That DDR dump is to disk and doesn't get backed up by
VMBACKUP until the next night, but a day old catalog is better than nothing.
Jim
Kris Buelens wrote:
One of our RxServer based serves uses DDR to take a daily backup of
key minidisks listed in a control file and count for the remainder on
the weekly & daily incremental backups taken with VMBACKUP. SFS thus
on VMBACKUP, nothing of SFS is on the DDR backup; the DDR must fit on
a single casette (as DDR doesn't support tape labels).
Part of a DR procedure is running an exec that regenerates all SFS
servers before one starts the VMBACKUP restore template (template
generated by the disaster backup procedure). The control files living
on the SFS servers' 191 disk are restored by this SFS format
procedure.
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Jim Bohnsack
Cornell University
(607) 255-1760
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