Re: [Veritas-bu] older version issue.... netbackup 6.5.6

2015-07-28 Thread Wayne T Smith
Congrats on testing! As you found, it is important to also get the archive redo logs post-backup. Cheers, Wayne ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] older version issue.... netbackup 6.5.6

2015-07-28 Thread sshapiro
I asked "you" not to ask! (business reasons for not upgrading the old database, and the DBAs, although they do their best to support an unsupported database, have no desire to inject yet another unsupported process in the mix. Michael correctly asked - what about the archive logs that are create

Re: [Veritas-bu] older version issue.... netbackup 6.5.6

2015-07-28 Thread Michael Graff Andersen
sshapiro currious why you are running a database that is about ten years out of support, especially if your DBAs do not want to use the tools native to that version. Glad you got your problem solved, did not suggest start/end scripts as I understood that you wanted a RMAN like solution which was w

Re: [Veritas-bu] older version issue.... netbackup 6.5.6

2015-07-28 Thread nbuser
Hi thanks for sharing your experience. Can you please paste output of bp.start and bp.end scripts. It will help us understand better. From: "sshapiro"nbu-fo...@backupcentral.com Sent:Tue, 28 Jul 2015 07:38:37 +0530 To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] older ver

[Veritas-bu] older version issue.... netbackup 6.5.6

2015-07-27 Thread sshapiro
Only got one emailed reply to this - suggested EBU. Not an option. Our DBAs have no interested in trying to set up yet another unsupported system. I resolved this by avoidance, in case anyone is interested. I set up a new netbackup policy to just backup the oracle DB filesystems and archive log

Re: [Veritas-bu] older version issue.... netbackup 6.5.6

2015-07-16 Thread Sid Shapiro
Thanks - I'll look into EBU. NetApp can generally do snapshots, but (1) we were trying to move as much as we could to rman, (2) our current snapshot procedure is pretty cumbersome and I expected it to remain as kludgey on NetApp, and (3), we think that Unix snapshot might be a seperately licensed

Re: [Veritas-bu] older version issue.... netbackup 6.5.6

2015-07-16 Thread Lightner, Jeff
5, 2015 6:36 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] older version issue.... netbackup 6.5.6 Hello, I have a problem with netbackup 6.5.6 running on hp-ux (pa-risc) 11.11 (running oracle 7.3.4) I am aware that almost everything I've jsut described is old and unsupported, a

Re: [Veritas-bu] older version issue.... netbackup 6.5.6

2015-07-15 Thread Mian71
Hello Sid Have you tried to use EBU which it is the RMAN for Oracle 7.3.4 It did work with netbackup libobk back in NetBackup 3.4 NetApp should be able to create snapshots the volume, at least it could when I worked with it. For the bpbackup issue, it could be related to the user if you are not

[Veritas-bu] older version issue.... netbackup 6.5.6

2015-07-15 Thread Sid Shapiro
Hello, I have a problem with netbackup 6.5.6 running on hp-ux (pa-risc) 11.11 (running oracle 7.3.4) I am aware that almost everything I've jsut described is old and unsupported, and please don't suggest upgrading, unfortunately this is not possible. Background (kind of long-winded, but I want to