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Re: Is it Veritas or is it smoke and mirrors? again

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:04:38 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005C7E95.20030730170438@fatcity.com>


Michael,

Do you have access to the Veritas Master server?

If so, you can take a look at the activity logs.

Better yet, check the logs on the client.

NBU_HOME=where ever NetBackup was installed.

Look in NBU_HOME/logs/user_ops/dbext/logs and see if logs are being created. Read a couple of the recent ones.

The location is the same in Windows or *nix.

Could be interesting reading, or non-reading, as the case may be.

Jared

"Michael Kline" <mkline1_at_comcast.net>
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There seems to be some big confusion if Veritas is working or not...  

Based on Previous discussions this customer has the Oracle Veritas agent running, and they do nightly backups.  

How ever, I find absolutely NONE of the RMAN tables updated so they are not using RMAN. I also find that the alert log has no references what so ever to "alter tablespace xyz begin backup" and the "... end backup"...  

While the agent is there and working, I sure see no signs that anything is happening as far as a REAL backup.  

It's Oracle 9i, but even that, I would think is going to leave some "hints" that all the hooks are working and backup is occurring.  

Recovery has NEVER been tested.    

Michael Alan Kline, Sr.
Principal Consultant
Business to Business Solutions, LLC
Phone: 804-744-1545 Cell: 804-314-6262
ICQ: 1009605, 975313
Email: mkline_at_b2bsol.com Web: www.b2bsol.com  

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