Hi All
Recently during my visit at one of Netbackup customer i came to know a strange query. They have heterogenous environment protecting Windows and AIX with Messaging and Collaboration suites as well. One of their application was using SQL as back end so we preferred to take SQL DB backups initially. Their SQL DB was residing on "X" volume at the time of configuring backup jobs. everything was fine till due to storage issue they had to move the DB to another volume with higher capacity. This movement of DB was not intimated to backup team. Nor backups failed even though physical path was changed.Whoooaaa!!!!
Later on backup admin came to know that path has been changed and was wondering how backups were going successfully. He even tried restoring one of them and it was intact.. it worked.....
He asked me about this... Firstly i was also amused with this complex behaviour netbackup handles. But it's great... I believe it is because of the bch file which we create for SQL backups. In this we don't specify the path of DB instead the DB name. So i believe Netbackup only points to DB and it doesn't looks for path in background.
Still i need expert comment and justification as i don't want to assure customer blindly based on just my judgement.
It's better to be confident with technology and represent.
Awaiting to hear from experts.
