Incidentally, I was on a Netbackup 6.5 course last week, the instructor mentioned that cold backups will no longer be available in NB 7.0
Regards, Brendan Clover Information Technologist Systems Infrastructure University of South Australia Phone: +61 8 830 23641 Fax: +61 8 830 25800 Log your own service calls here: http://www.unisa.edu.au/helpdesk AskIT documentation and FAQs: http://www.unisa.edu.au/askit ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- This e-mail may be privileged and/or confidential, and the sender does not waive any related rights and obligations. Any distribution, use or copying of this e-mail or the information it contains by other than an intended recipient is unauthorised. If you received this e-mail in error, please advise me (by return e-mail or otherwise) immediately ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:58:47 +0100 From: Dave Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU catalog backups hot vs cold To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu" <veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Thanks guys. Some good responses there and yes i can now see why its a good idea and extremely useful for people who don't have down time. My systems are not large enough for me to hit that problem thankfully and so it hasn't been a requirement of mine as yet. I think what i am best doing is enabling hot backups but to run during the day when i can assume most of the jobs have finished. If a job is still running the information for that will be backed up on the next catalogue hot backup, which while will leave me exposed should everything hit the fan before this second hot backup has ran, will still leave me with the majority of good images. Cheers Dave Markham wrote: > guys i'm newish to version 6 and one of the big things is it's ability > to run hot catalogue backups. > > Im on solaris with various media servers yada yada > > I'm just confused as to why running a hot catalogue backup, potentially > when other backups are running, is a good thing? > > I have the catalogues cold backed up when scheduled backups have > finished. This runs automatically. > I also do a second catalogue backup to disk (invoked from a script > calling bpbackupdb -dpath) which waits until any job has finished before > running. > > I just assume this is the best way as you get an up to date latest > catalogue backup after the nights backups have finished. > > Can someone enlighten me or point me to a white paper as to why the hot > method is better? > > I'm sure it is i just can't get it into my small head why at the mo :) > > Cheers > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu > > > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu End of Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 29, Issue 43 ****************************************** _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
