Veritas database backup

[hugonovo]

Hello all,

I'm getting started on veritas netbackup and I worried about veritas database's backup. I would like you to make your comment about the best way to make it.

Thank you in advance,
Hugo Novo

 

[PGPhantom]

What we do ...
The job is set to manual and not automatic strictly because of the size of the data and then only once a week on Sunday when we have little backup activity under way. The job is kicked off from our Scheduler program and contians:

BPPROC=`ps -ef | grep bpsched | grep -v grep | wc -l`
if [ $BPPROC -eq 0 ]
then
d:/veritas/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpbackupdb.exe
else
echo ""
echo ""
echo "The NetBackup Database Backup Failed as there"
echo "are bpsched processes (jobs) currently active"
echo ""
exit 1
fi


I first check for any active jobs, if any are found, the job will not be run. Open the NetBackup GUI, right click on "Catalog" and then on "Configure NetBackup Catalog. My media type is not tape but disk on another server that has sufficient space - In my case that is 80GB. Once again, we do not use tape at this point for two reasons - Speed of the backup and if we need to restore, the data is on disk.

The schedule is set to only when manually initiated. The files included are netbackup\db, netbackup\var, volmgr\database and volmge\vm.conf for the master server AND ALL media servers.

Hope this helps.