On Thu, 6 May 2004 18:01:56 +0530 Anoop Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alex, the "restore dbbackup" command requires that the the dbbackup > volume be listed in the volhist file. Once the dbbackup from disk is > backed up Not true, the dbbackup can be anywhere, as long as the devclass is defined in your devconfig backup. > onto tape using dd or tar, I can add this tape volser into the volhist > file. But how will the "restore dbbackup" command recognise the format > written in the tape. Also as I know, dbbackup restore mandates the > availability of the dbbackup on the catridge. What you do want to do is make sure that you do have a local dbbackup as well as a remote backup, so you can recover your server even if the remote server is unavailable for some reason. > > Thanks and Regards > > Anoop T.Das > > > > > Alex Paschal > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] TLINER.COM> > cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Subject: Re: > Taking dbbackups on remote TSM servers Dist Stor > Manager"<[EMAIL PROTECTED] > DU> > > > 05/06/2004 02:09 AM > Please respond to > "ADSM: Dist Stor > Manager" > > > > > Anoop: > > Other than server-server virtual volumes, here's a couple other blue > sky options. > > You might consider taking your dbbackup to disk, then move that file > over your network to the other machine. nfs, sftp, scp, ttcp, those > should all work to get your dbbackup file moved. Then you can just dd > or tar it onto tape, if you like. > > Or you could somehow use iSCSI to serve up the tape drive itself over > the WAN, but I don't really think that's such a great idea. > > The reason I'd use interim disk is our WAN links are pretty small and > slow, and keeping a mount point tied up for long enough to xfer 80GB > worth of database, whether it be via server-server or iSCSI, doesn't > seem to make much sense to me. And I probably wouldn't use > server-server for the same reason, I don't need a dbbackup running all > day and pinning the recovery log. Of course, your 300KM line could be > gigabit with LAN level latency, for all I know. <grin> > > Alex Paschal > Freightliner, LLC > (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anoop Das [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 7:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Taking dbbackups on remote TSM servers > > > Hi all > > I have two TSM servers connected to LTO 3583 located 300 KMs apart and > the dbabckup for the same happens locally. I then send the dbbackups > to offsite( Site-A to Site-B and viceversa) on a daily basis. > > Is it possible to take the dbbackup of server-A to the site-B drive > and server-B to the site-A LTO drive? This will relieve me of the > manual activity of sending the dbbackup tapes taken locally to offsite > daily. Also being a scheduled activity there is no chance for > failures. > > Any help is highly appreciated. > > Anoop -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post SARA - Reken- en Netwerkdiensten http://www.sara.nl High Performance Computing Tel. +31 20 592 3000 Fax. +31 20 668 3167 "I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams
