Hi,

did you test the ability to recover this database? Just to make sure I understand - /usr/openv/netbackup/db is an NFS mounted file system? Did you do a disaster recovery test to see that you can recover the database and then restore files from the database? What is the size of your database? Does the database reside on a Netapp - if so did you attempt to also backup the database using NDMP? I would assume that this won't work well since on the one hand the database changes as the backup progresses, on the other hand, NDMP is backing up a snapshot which will not contain the information of this backup.

Manny

-----Original Message----- From: ilya.birman@abnamro.com [mailto:ilya.birman@abnamro.com] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 7:25 PM To: Manny Kaiser Cc: toasters@mathworks. com Subject: Re: Veritas Netbackup Database

We did that. Veritas did not tell us not to do it. We have a enormous amount of data do backup so we had to migrate the NteBackup DB of local disk. So for no problem. The concern we had is that on normal backup you can direct Veritas to "Follow NFS". There is no such option on NetBackup Catalog backups. We were concern if the catalog will be backed up properly. As far as NFS not being reliable, I think that battle had been fought many years ago. Ilya

"Manny Kaiser" <mkaiser@mmcnet.co To: "toasters@mathworks. com" toasters@mathworks.com m> cc: Sent by: Subject: Veritas Netbackup Database owner-toasters@mat hworks.com

10/19/2001 10:03 AM

Has anyone placed the Veritas Netbackup database on an NFS mounted file system? More specifically on a netapp? I was just told by Veritas that they do not recommend doing this because NFS is unreliable. Any feedback would be helpful.