netbackup(nbu) and ontape

Posted in 2010

Summary

Will Landstrom asked how to set up NetBackup with ontape. Fernando Nunes and Richard Snoke explained ontape cannot talk to a storage manager directly like onbar. Instead, point TAPEDEV and LTAPEDEV at directories, so ontape writes backup files that NetBackup backs up as ordinary files. Will said this was what he needed.

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Topics: Backup & Restore, Server Administration

WILL LANDSTROM — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:00:22 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

Hi everyone. Would anyone have any documentation on what the informix dba needs to do in order to setup netbackup (nbu) with ontape. I have done this with onbar but never ontape and can't find any documentation on this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Will

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Fernando Nunes — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:46:03 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

I may be missing something, but ontape doesn't connect to any storage manager. You can do ontape backups to disk (file or directory) or to STDIO (maybe a PIPE to compress) and then pick up the resulting file with the storage manager agent for file system backups. Regards. On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:00 PM, WILL LANDSTROM <willlandstrom@yahoo.com>wrote: > Hi everyone. Would anyone have any documentation on what the informix dba > needs to do in order to setup netbackup (nbu) with ontape. I have done this > with onbar but never ontape and can't find any documentation on this. Any > help > would be appreciated. Thanks, Will > > > > ******************************************************************************* > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. > > -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently... --001485f49a7af8c64e0487fa65d1

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Richard Snoke — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:57:54 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

Hi, ontape does not work with netbackup (or any equivalent product) directly as onbar does. There is not way to directly pump the output of ontape to a program like netbackup. What's relatively easy to do is to use a directory for TAPEDEV and LTAPEDEV (these may be separate directories). ontape then creates a separate file there for each backup. Then you can configure netbackup to capture the files in whatever scheme you want. The backups are just filesystem files to netbackup. Hope this makes sense. Cheers, Dick Snoke Executive IT Specialist IBM Software Group - ChannelWorks Tel: (404) 487-1595 Email: dsnoke@us.ibm.com From: "WILL LANDSTROM" <willlandstrom@yahoo.com> To: ids@iiug.org Date: 06/01/10 12:01 PM Subject: netbackup(nbu) and ontape [20276] Sent by: ids-bounces@iiug.org Hi everyone. Would anyone have any documentation on what the informix dba needs to do in order to setup netbackup (nbu) with ontape. I have done this with onbar but never ontape and can't find any documentation on this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Will ******************************************************************************* Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.

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WILL LANDSTROM — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:30:03 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

Thanks Dick. This was exactly what I was looking for.

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