Veritas Netbackup to schedule onbar

Hi everyone. I have a IDS 9.4 database that uses Veritas netbackup to schedule the onbar backups on a Unix AIX machine. General question...If I were to need to do an onbar restore there is no reason why I would not just do a typical command line driven onbar restore...is that correct? In other words just because Veritas Netbackup schedules the onbar backups I would still (from the unix command prompt) simply do an onbar -r -w (as example) for a full restore? Does that sound right?

Yes sir, that is exactly right. Also, just because netbackup is doing a regularly scheduled backup doesn't stop u from running a backup at the onbar command line either (ie if u need a backup for some special reason and ur netbackup person is not avail to kick it off in netbackup, u can run it at command line.....). All netbackup is doing is calling an onbar script anyway...... Netbackups timer goes off and it executes a script on ur server and that script runs the onbar command.... Your script, your command.... U can add anything to that script u want, and u can run it whenever u want and it will still talk to netbackup.... Depending on ur netbackup admin, u may want to be kind and let them know when u r doing a backup or restore..... Netbackup and onbar work very well together. Enjoy! Norma Jean Sebastian ----- Original Message ----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.org <ids-bounces@iiug.org> To: ids@iiug.org <ids@iiug.org> Sent: Sat May 10 07:43:24 2008 Subject: Veritas Netbackup to schedule onbar [12070] Hi everyone. I have a IDS 9.4 database that uses Veritas netbackup to schedule the onbar backups on a Unix AIX machine. General question...If I were to need to do an onbar restore there is no reason why I would not just do a typical command line driven onbar restore...is that correct? In other words just because Veritas Netbackup schedules the onbar backups I would still (from the unix command prompt) simply do an onbar -r -w (as example) for a full restore? Does that sound right? ******************************************************************************* Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. ============================================================ The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reproduction, dissemination or distribution of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Tellabs ============================================================

Norma. Thank you for the quick response. Sometimes the most basic questions lead to the most valuable information.