Open File Option?

[NewJack73]

I need some advice. Is open file option a reliable and safe option to use on backups? Has anyone had a successfull restore from this type of backup. Our backup jobs skips over open files so I am just wondering if open file option is reliable.
Thanks in advance.

 

[ITsmyfault]

FWIW

I had some tough times with the OFO from Veritas - particularly with the remote agent hanging servers. I am running BUE in a Netware 5.1 environment so YMMV and all that..
The OFM is a 3rd party app so support is somewhat limited IME. I wound up doing an upgrade to St. Bernard's open file manager and it works really well (well = fast and reliable around here). I have restored from these backups with no problems to date. The real acid test would be to restore a database of some sort I suppose (where a collection of files has a "state" to it that must be maintained) I have not had to restore a DB from a production backup. I still shut things down for any critical backup jobs.. old habits and all that.
hth

Joe

 

[Qdog]

OFO cannot backup transactional databases (SQL, Exchange, Oracle).
Veritas wrote their own version of OFO for Backup Exec 9.0 which was just released. This will eliminate a lot of the stupid errors encountered with 8.x which used OTM technology for OFO.