downtime. The level-0's all claimed to complete without error, but a few of the incrementals based on those level-0's failed to restore, complaining that the full-restore had not completed & thus an incremental restore could not proceed.
Excuse me if I ask something probably obvious, but was this done with the Java version of NDMPcopy '-level i' or '-level 0' (and than '-level 1', and so on...)?
This was with the Java version, with -level 0 and then -level 1; Didn't use the -level i at all.
Anyway, I'd say go ahead but make sure you see both "DUMP IS DONE" _and_ "RESTORE IS DONE" on all of your copies, or do them over before proceeding to the next incremental.
Thanks for the tip. I guess this would require constant attendance during the whole operation.
Not really. I just ran them all from a script which logged the output to a file (all from a Unix host). You can look at the log file later and determine which ones might need special handling.
Regards,