Re: Veritas file locking

there are several ways to fix this. (in decreasing order of draconianess)

1. uninstall the win32 OS and install one of the supported Linux distros. do not install samba of any kind.
2. remote the server from the domain stop the server service for good measure and unbind NetBIOS from TCP/IP.
3. revoke access permissions from all "live" directories. create the backup sets on disk and have the backup software grab those.

nothing quite says "client site database issue" like a misconfigured backup job that decides that its going to lock a controlfile during a backup. puke.

those fuzzy backups of an open database not in hot backup mode or not created by rman are likely worthless. have you ever had them restore a controlfile that was open and active from a backup set?

oh right, this is just backups, not backup/restore/recovery.

telling them that the restore/recovery part will fail may get their attention.

Paul

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:19:30 -0700, Bryan Wells <bunjibry_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello again... newbie here.
>
> 9205 DataWarehouse on W2K Advanced Server. Has anyone ever had any
> issues with Veritas running weekend fulls on everything, including
> data files and oracle binaries? would veritas take precedence by
> locking these files for backup, not allowing the db to access them?
>
> We seem to be having this issue. i can see the error in the alert
> log, and correspond it to a rough time that veritas had the specific
> data file locked for backup. im making assumtions, but we believe
> that it is this that brings the DB down. could this hard down cause
> corruption in our MV indexes, especially since they are not being
> rebuilt when the MV is being rebuilt. or does dropping the MV
> recreate the index?
>
> told you I was a newbie. Thanks in advance for your help and of
> course the help youve given me already!
>
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