Re: VE 7.1.1.1 backup "freezing" a VM & question about "megablocks"

2015-03-06 Thread Prather, Wanda
>>We had a situation yesterday where 2 VE backups were causing the VM's to go >>unresponsive. No response to ping, unable to RDP, etc. As soon as the >>backup finished (or was killed in one case), the servers picked back up where >>they left off. They never rebooted, but you can actually see

Re: DB2/Oracle backup reporting and scheduling

2015-03-06 Thread Rick Adamson
Rick, This all began after a recent audit revealed many systems either had missed backup schedules, excessive retention, or no backups at all, which led to the question of how we can better account for them on a day-to-day basis. Of course then the usual finger pointing ensued and management a

Re: DB2/Oracle backup reporting and scheduling

2015-03-06 Thread Rhodes, Richard L.
Our Oracle backups have three scenarios. 1) Home grown scripts are scheduled via cron on the Oracle server, copy/compress the db to local disk, then pushed the db backup to TSM via a dsmc backup of the backup disk area. 2) RMAN backups are scheduled via cron which push data to TSM via LanFr

DB2/Oracle backup reporting and scheduling

2015-03-06 Thread Rick Adamson
I assume someone has dealt with this I would like to hear how they handled it. The issue: DB2 and/or Oracle database backups that are dependent on completion of external processes. Currently our DBA's utilize a variety of methods to initiate DB2 and Oracle database backups (CRON, external sched

VE 7.1.1.1 backup "freezing" a VM & question about "megablocks"

2015-03-06 Thread Schaub, Steve
First, many thanks to Wanda & others who have been so helpful in answering my previous VE questions! We had a situation yesterday where 2 VE backups were causing the VM's to go unresponsive. No response to ping, unable to RDP, etc. As soon as the backup finished (or was killed in one case), t