Backup Strategy suggestions?

[whatsthisbuttondo]

Greetings,
We are building a 9.2 site with the following:
1 Production Server (MS 2003)
1 Admin Server (MS 2003)
1 DB Server (Oracle)

Using an external document store (1.5 TB Pod on Prod Server)

Can anyone give me tips on what to backup?

Note: We use Symantec Livestate for Server Imaging and Veritas Netbackup for data backup.

Thanks for the help!

 

[appnair]

This may be a real difficult thing to discuss.My companies strategies may be different from another .However you will need to make the call as to what this backup can give you.
For eg;Oracle being the heart of the livelink system,if you have backups as close to a crash(point in time) you will lose only that much.If your system crashed and you can bring back the database,it would be as simple to connect it again.If you do not have file stores in sync there might be more/less than in the original instance.The search index are file system files so if they are backed up you can more or less have a working search from them.Although if your primary admin server crashed there might be an awful lot of reconfiging to be done before search can start.

As I said please discuss with your business what ultimately by taking backups they are expecting to work for them.


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[mhunkin]

Hi,

Here's a method I've use at couple of sites (multi terabyte, 7 servers).

Install your Admin and Production server with local binaries only. Then configure your Admin server to use your SAN to store the EFS and Index. (I presume your not using BLOB storage).

I've not used Symantec Livestate but used both Veritas Cluster and HP XP512. Most SAN Storage products allow you to take a Business Continuance Volume i.e. split your mirror on the SAN and backup the Off-line volume. They normally take a sector copy and the re-sync the volumes. You can then backup to tape if required from the BCV.

Veritas Netbackup can be used to take an Oracle Hot Backup. If you synchronise your Oracle hot backup with the SAN backup and Livelink servers backup, you can minimise any discrepancy between database and EFS. As a safeguard you can stop the Livelink service during the backup, but you don't have too, if it's a highly available system.

It all depends on buget and what SLA you have to work too.

Hope this helps.