Hej Tru64 managers
I would like to thanks:
Alan - alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Franc - franc_at_mml.usyd.edu.au
Lars - lbr_at_nettest.dk
Anthony - aad_at_lovecraft.talltree.net
Jan - dkJanHan_at_europe.lego.com
The answers i got on datbases for Tru64 was:
Oracle and Sybase
The answers i got With backupsoftware was try Legato Networker,
http://www.amanda.org and got this answer from Alan:
Networker from Legato has a number of backup modules for
doing database and specialized application backups. You'll
want to check their web site to see what's offered for
Tru64 UNIX. Backuping up a live database is difficult
unless the backup application tightly integerated with the
database.
What you can do on Tru64 UNIX, if you put the database files
on the AdvFS file system is stop the database for a few seconds
before starting the backup, create an AdvFS "cloneset", restart
the database and then mount and backup the clone. The clone
feature of AdvFS copies all the file system metadata for a
particular file system and then writes the original data of
the blocks that change to the clone. This makes the clone
a snapshot of the original file system. As long as you get
a consistent snapshot of the database, you'll get a good
backup.
For a fairly simple backup scheme you don't even need complex
backup software. If you can write a script to perform the
necessary commands, you can use cron to run it when desired
and then use the base system backup utilities.
Thanks for the answers.
Anders Trier Rasmussen
Received on Thu Nov 25 1999 - 09:28:04 NZDT