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belse
Level 5
12 years ago

Open file backup for unix/linux

Hi All, I have a master server 7.0 with 2003 server O/S, We are deploying one Unix/linux machine in our enviornment and need to take backup of it. In windows there are VSP and VSS for open file b...
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Marianne's avatar
Marianne
Level 6
12 years ago

No - open databases should never be backed up with normal filesystem backups - not on Unix and not on Windows. Unix backup will probably exit with status 0, but databases cannot be brought online from this restore. You can confirm this fact with database vendor. 

There are 3 ways to backup databases:

  1. Stop databases or put in backup mode (if database has such functionality) before doing filesystem backup
  2. Use database backup tools to backup databases to file ,then backup this database dump with filesystem backup. Exclude databases from filesystem backup.
  3. Use NBU database extensions to backup online databases. Exclude databases from filesystem backup.