HP Serveur lame HP ProLiant BL465c Gen8 User Manual

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1.

Back up the storage group to the secondary volume.

Using VSS, back up the storage group in an online backup operation. To perform backup, execute

EX_DRM_EXG_BACKUP

. Specify the operation ID

Operation_A

as the argument.

DBServer > EX_DRM_EXG_BACKUP Operation_A -mode -vss

2.

Check that the storage group has been backed up correctly.

To check that backup information bearing the date on which the storage group had been backed
up from the primary volume to the secondary volume is available, execute the

drmexgcat

command on the database server.

DBServer > drmexgcat -target STORAGE_1

STORAGEGROUP: STORAGE_1

BACKUP-ID:0000000001 BACKUP-MODE: VSS STORAGEGROUP: STORAGE_1 ORIGINAL-ID:0000000001

START-TIME:2003/06/01 17:45:36 END-TIME: 2003/06/01 17:52:36

:

:

In this example, information about the backup operation carried out in step 1 has been loaded
in the backup catalog with the new backup ID

0000000001.

3.

Export the backup information to temporary files.

To back up data from the secondary volume to a tape, you must copy information about backup
that was performed from the primary volume to the secondary volume. Copy this information to
the backup server. To export information about backup to temporary files, execute

EX_DRM_DB_EXPORT

. Temporary files are stored in the temporary folder for extended commands,

on the database server.

DBServer > EX_DRM_DB_EXPORT Operation_A

4.

Transfer the temporary files to the backup server.

Batch-transfer the temporary files from the database server to the backup server. To transfer the
files, execute

EX_DRM_FTP_PUT

on the database server. In this example, the user ID used for

logon to the FTP server is

admin

and the password is

password

. Temporary files are stored in

the temporary folder for extended commands, on the backup server.

DBServer > EX_DRM_FTP_PUT Operation_A -server BKServer -user admin -password password

5.

Import the temporary files, which were transmitted from the database server, into the backup
catalog on the backup server.

To import the temporary files, which were transmitted from the database server, into the backup
catalog on the backup server, execute

EX_DRM_DB_IMPORT

on the backup server.

BKServer > EX_DRM_DB_IMPORT Operation_A

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