It suspends writes to ALL universe files. The background jobs are still running but any file updates will wait until you turn suspend off. I track the suspend ON/Off status in a unix directory just for that reason.
Ron Bertrand Analyst,AP SYS 3 ISD/LIS Group Health Coop 206-901-4519 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chandrika Padaki Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:24 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Backup Question If we did a SUSPEND.FILES.ON, does it just suspend the updates and not mess with any jobs / users logged into the system? If so, that might work, since we have a third party script to backup to disk right now. Currently brings down the database though, doing that causes problems with other batch processes setup. Thanks, -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hona, David S Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:44 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Backup Question uvbackup is the official database backup/restore utility. Hardly anybody uses it though, it's too slow and not very flexible for some. It has the advantage of performing internal data (structure) file integrity checking, as part of the backup and internally tagging the files as backed-up. You can use a third-party utility and invoke the TCL command "SUSPEND.FILES ON" to pause updates whilst you do an online backup. Or break your disk mirror, back that up instead. Other options to look at are UV Data Replication to backup system with UV installed/licensed to mirror your production environment. Not a cheap option in most cases. Whatever you use, you need to ensure that absolutely no updates are happening to any of the UniVerse files. And of course you're using a backup utility which can backup open files on the operating system you're hosting on. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chandrika Padaki Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:25 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Backup Question Our company has a Universe System. We are trying to automate the backup process without bringing the system down every night. Is there an Online Backup Utility available? If so what is it and do any of you have a sample script I could look at? ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
