How do you backup Groupwise 6?

[Aragorn002]

Hi,

I am tyring to backup Groupwise 6 with a backup application (Commvault Galaxy) that does not have an open file agent. Has anyone ever done this?

I believe that groupwise needs to be shut down for the duration of the backup. We probably need to write scripts to shutdown and startup groupwise. Does anyone know where to begin with scripts? I dont know very much about netware.

Thanks in advance.

 

[FarOut]

Of course finding an OFA for GW would be the best way to perform a backup. You could also look into using GWBACKUP and DBCOPY to perform your backups (link listed below).

But if you want to use your BU application you can sutdown GW agents using Novell's Cron utility. It is an NLM that runs on the server. And is a lot easier than writing scripts. Basically all you do is set a time/date that you would like a command to be executed.

Example to stop POA @ 7:45pm every day:

45 19 ** stoppoa.ncf

Here is a link that explains it in more detail.

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10024685.htm

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/2929217.htm

FarOut
V-Peace-V

 

[terry712]

load the gwtsa

any decent backup software will utilise this - no need to shutdown agents

an alien concept

 

[ITsmyfault]

Groupwise 6.x has a TSA written by Novell which allows live backup w/o an OFA. It should show up as an object (like a volume) except it will be called "Groupwise system" and have various components.. POA's, Doc libraries etc. BUE works with it as does Arcserve and the Commvault guys I've spoken with believe it works with the TSA as well. to restore TSA backups you need the TSA running btw. The sys:/system/gwtsa.ncf file is created at install time. Just check its config out and then add it to your autoexec.ncf
I have restored my whole system from backups made this way; mof I have a restore volume on the GW server so the users can restore their own email. This makes my life easier and also lets me 'test' the backups on an ongoing basis.

If you do go with an open file solution at some point, don't bother looking around. Just buy the St. Bernard OFM. It's the best thing on the planet for this, period end of story.
Some of the folks on the Netware support groups backup Groupwise live just using it. (I use it and the TSA. I'm paranoid..)

 

[KenB]

There are good reason to have both an OFA and the GWTSA available on your system. As mentioned already the GWTSA backs up the parts of the GW System (DOM, PO, Lib etc.) that you have defined in the config as objects, therefore you have to restore the whole object back to the server. This is fine but can take some time on a large PO. I do this once a week on a full backup. The rest of the time I do backups of the PO files individualy, then I can restore a single database file if I have to. I am using CA Brightstore for Netware v9.0 and it lets me configure the jobs either way or I can use both ways together. I would guess that most Netware 6.x aware backup SW would do this as well.

HTH
Ken