>From an external perspective this is easy to say
but...
- You've coughed up a whole lot of cash for
NetBackup.
- You're looking for a good enterprise wide solution
Seems like its time to go RMAN
hth
connor
- "Spears, Brian" <BSpears_at_Limitedbrands.com>
wrote: >
> Hi,
>
> I am the other guy involved in this issue of Not
> backing up OPEN files on
> Unix with Netbackup.
>
> We are keeping 2 days of logs on disk up to 60gig
> of logs.. The tape
> backup people are not happy about us
> backing this up often to provide extra redundancy
> especially as we
> implement this for every oracle system we
> have.
> Yes, we have considered running other backups but
> we really wanted to see
> if Veritas could close this logic hole
> for us because we have a directive to keep our
> solution simple and secure.
> I know on windows its no problem and veritas
> squawks when the files are in
> use... Anyone know if the "only
> BACKUP close files" feature exists in Unix.
>
> Brian Spears
> Sr. Oracle Database Administrator OCP
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 11:50 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Hello Joe
>
> Just schedule another backup of the archive logs 1
> hour (or 5 minutes) after
> the regular backup. NetBackup will take a second
> (complete) backup of the
> archive file and when you want to restore , restore
> the last copy of the
> files.
>
> Yechiel Adar
> Mehish
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> <mailto:ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 5:50 PM
>
> RESEND: never saw it get posted:
>
> Can we force veritas netbackup (HPUX) to NOT backup
> open files?
>
> Here is the problem: while arch process is writing
> out archive logs, the
> netbackup script that backs up the arch directory
> will write a partially
> written log to tape, we're trying to avoid that.
>
> is our only alternative determine(out of data
> dictionary) how many log
> groups we have and assuming 3, that if we take the
> max log seq# minus the
> numebr of groups we have, gives us the oldest log
> that we can be sure is
> complete?
>
> ie: current log is 543, we have 3 log groups, 543-3
> = 540, since oracle
> wouldnt start overwriting # 540 until it was
> successfully archived, that we
> can back up, up thru log seq# 540 and can be sure #
> 540 is complete?
>
> thanks, joe
>
>
>
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