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Use Veritas Netbackup to do database hotbackup
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I am figuring how to use our Veritas Netbackup 4.5 to do hot database backup. The key point is that our Veritas software doesn't contain the module that supports hot backup, we have to do a cold backup by using a script to shut down the database, use bpbackup command to backup files and then start the database. Now for the hotbackup, I probably have to use the media manager to write to the tapes device, our backup media. I am new to Veritas software. Can anyone give me some idea about how to get started, how could I write database files into a tape device managed by Veritas?
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I am figuring how to use our Veritas Netbackup 4.5 to do hot database backup. The key point is that our Veritas software doesn't contain the module that supports hot backup, we have to do a cold backup by using a script to shut down the database, use bpbackup command to backup files and then start the database. Now for the hotbackup, I probably have to use the media manager to write to the tapes device, our backup media. I am new to Veritas software. Can anyone give me some idea about how to get started, how could I write database files into a tape device managed by Veritas?
Thanks,
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I don't quite familiar with the way of fssnap and drop, backup a mirror. What I do know is that when I read the veritas media manager admin guide, it says external access to media manager controlled devices must use tpreq and tpunmount to have access to an UP drive under ltid control. ltid is the device daemon that restrict access to media manager controlled drives that are in an UP state. It looks like we can use unix os copy commands, but we still can't totally by pass veritas.
So I have to use tpreq first and then use tar, dd or cp to write to the tape. I know we can write from disk to tape use tar. Can we use dd and cp?
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