On: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:57:26PM -0400,Jim Bohnsack Wrote: } 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.
The way that was handled at my prior POE was that after the normal b/u of the universe, a seperate b/u of the catalog was taken which was a non-catalog job. Automation pulled the VSN out of the job log and recorded it for future need. JR can probably fill in the details here. -- Rich Greenberg N Ft Myers, FL, USA richgr atsign panix.com + 1 239 543 1353 Eastern time. N6LRT I speak for myself & my dogs only. VM'er since CP-67 Canines:Val, Red, Shasta & Casey (RIP), Red & Zero, Siberians Owner:Chinook-L Retired at the beach Asst Owner:Sibernet-L
