EMC Timefiner scripting

[Brian Lee_4]

I plan to use EMC Timefinder to make a backup with BCV devices in the our master backup server after splitting them.

The BCVs will be mounted to a Linux host for backup via Legato Networker.

I will use RMAN to ensure a consistent database copy on the BCVs.

The solution enabler version is 6.0.1.

Since I am not that good at scripting, please help me out.

Thanks.

[Doug O'Leary]

Hey;

I think you might be missing a couple of concepts:

1. Since you're in the HPUX forums, I'm assuming your database server is an HP. I'm reasonably sure you cannot mount a filesystem created/written on an HP box to a linux system. The only possibility is if you're using VXFS and vxvm on both systems. If you're using HP's LVM, you're doomed, if you're using HFS you're doomed in multiple ways.

2. You won't be using rman on the database server; you'd use that on the backup server - and only if you're using hot backups. The paradigm is as follows:

a. Set the database into hotbackup mode (or shut it down completely).
b Use symmir commands to split the bcvs.
c. Set the database back into normal mode or restart it.
d. Mount the bcv drives on the backup server and backup.
e. Once the backup is complete, unmount from backup system, and use symmir commands to reestablish the bcv mirrors.

3. Before attempting to script anything, ensure you're familiar with the commands and run through the process manually several times. You'll have to be familiar with the manual process because for whatever reason, the backup process may fail and you'll have to know how to recover from the failure and restart it.

Not much help on the scripting, but hopefully some help on clarifying the concepts...

Doug