We are using Veritas NetBackup.  What we do is kick off the users, do a
disk to disk with Veritas, process nightly (approx 15 minutes of
exclusive system use), then allow users to login. After that we
duplicated the diskbackup to tape.

Our files that are backed up are only about 4.5gb.  So, it does go
pretty quick.  As far as people complaining, what can you say.  There
are absolutely more sophisticated ways of doing this using replication
and so forth.  The question is how much do you want to spend on this and
how much do you want complicate things ?  Sometimes you really have no
choice and you have to bit the bullet.

I say keep it simple.

Anthony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Powell
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 5:15 AM
> To: u2 users group
> Subject: [U2] Backup, dbpause & 24/7 operation
> 
> 
> As our company grows we are getting more pressure to extend 
> our operation through the night. We have maintained a nightly 
> backup that does a dbpause to suspend unidata. This irritates 
> our night shift people since they can no longer use the system.
> 
> How do those companies who operate 24/7 get around this and 
> perform backups?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> SB 5.3.8
> Unidata 6
> AIX 5.3
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