I do an additional archival backup with "cp" at the linux OS level before and after our month-end batch processing since that's the data we typically have to refer back to. I bought a 4TB iomega NAS appliance that was relatively inexpensive just for this purpose. The archive share is NFS mounted on the UV server. We're fortunate enough to have times outside normal business hours when UV is relatively quiescent so I don't have to pause the database. The cp command gets executed within a UV program at the beginning and end of the batch process:
PRINT '[SU0011] Creating archive directory' EXECUTE 'SH -c "mkdir ':MOUNT.POINT:'/':DIR.NAME:'"' PRINT '[SU0011] Archiving FABRIC.PROD at ':OCONV(TIME(),'MT') EXECUTE 'SH -c "cp -r ':@PATH:' ':MOUNT.POINT:'/':DIR.NAME:'"' PRINT '[SU0011] Archival completed at ':OCONV(TIME(),'MT') PRINT '[SU0011] Archival completed at ':OCONV(TIME(),'MT') PRINT '[SU0011] Removing write permissions' EXECUTE 'SH -c "chmod -R ugo-w ':MOUNT.POINT:'/':DIR.NAME:'"' PRINT '[SU0011] All actions completed at ':OCONV(TIME(),'MT') The DIR.NAME variable contains the current month and year, so it was very easy to write a utility that non-admin UV programmers can use to access archive data on the NFS share just by supplying a month, year, and file name. -John -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Chris Lee Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 9:07 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] UniVerse backups to disk Hi All, We're running UniVerse 10.1.17 on AIX 5.3 and the backup feature included within our vendors software is pretty basic and only allows backups of Universe to tape. I'm going to continue running backups to tape on a nightly basis, but I'd also like to automate backups over the network to another file server so that if I'm not around to swap tapes they'll continue being backed up, as well as all the benefits of having extra copies in case a tape fails. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
