>From an external perspective this is easy to say but... a) You've coughed up a whole lot of cash for NetBackup. b) You're looking for a good enterprise wide solution
Seems like its time to go RMAN hth connor --- "Spears, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am the other guy involved in this issue of Not > backing up OPEN files on > Unix with Netbackup. > > We are keeping 2 days of logs on disk up to 60gig > of logs.. The tape > backup people are not happy about us > backing this up often to provide extra redundancy > especially as we > implement this for every oracle system we > have. > Yes, we have considered running other backups but > we really wanted to see > if Veritas could close this logic hole > for us because we have a directive to keep our > solution simple and secure. > I know on windows its no problem and veritas > squawks when the files are in > use... Anyone know if the "only > BACKUP close files" feature exists in Unix. > > Brian Spears > Sr. Oracle Database Administrator OCP > > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 11:50 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Hello Joe > > Just schedule another backup of the archive logs 1 > hour (or 5 minutes) after > the regular backup. NetBackup will take a second > (complete) backup of the > archive file and when you want to restore , restore > the last copy of the > files. > > Yechiel Adar > Mehish > > ----- Original Message ----- > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 5:50 PM > > RESEND: never saw it get posted: > > Can we force veritas netbackup (HPUX) to NOT backup > open files? > > Here is the problem: while arch process is writing > out archive logs, the > netbackup script that backs up the arch directory > will write a partially > written log to tape, we're trying to avoid that. > > is our only alternative determine(out of data > dictionary) how many log > groups we have and assuming 3, that if we take the > max log seq# minus the > numebr of groups we have, gives us the oldest log > that we can be sure is > complete? > > ie: current log is 543, we have 3 log groups, 543-3 > = 540, since oracle > wouldnt start overwriting # 540 until it was > successfully archived, that we > can back up, up thru log seq# 540 and can be sure # > 540 is complete? > > thanks, joe > > > ===== Connor McDonald http://www.oracledba.co.uk http://www.oaktable.net "GIVE a man a fish and he will eat for a day. But TEACH him how to fish, and...he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: =?iso-8859-1?q?Connor=20McDonald?= INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
