Online backup – HP Serveur lame HP ProLiant BL465c Gen8 User Manual

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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

6.

Back up the data of the secondary volume to a tape.

To back up the data, execute

EX_DRM_TAPE_BACKUP

on the backup server. In this example,

the drive containing the secondary volume is

E:

.

BKServer > EX_DRM_TAPE_BACKUP Operation_A -mount_pt E:

When you execute backup, information about this backup is registered in the backup catalog
with the new backup ID

0000000002

.

Online backup

An example of backing up a storage group to tape in an online backup operation is described below.
Online backup operations are executed with an Information Store and a disk drive mounted in position.
In this example, an online backup of storage group

STORAGE_1

for the database server

DBServer

is performed on the secondary volume, and then the consistency of the Exchange database is verified.
Next, the storage group is backed up from the secondary volume onto tape.

Operation_A

is used

as the operation ID.

To back up a storage group in an online backup operation:

1.

Back up a storage group to a secondary volume.

To back up a storage group in an online backup operation, execute

EX_DRM_EXG_BACKUP

.

Specify the operation ID

Operation_A

as an argument.

DBServer > EX_DRM_EXG_BACKUP Operation_A -mode online

2.

Check that the storage group has been backed 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

STORAGEGROUP: STORAGE_1

BACKUP-ID:0000000001 BACKUP-MODE: ONLINE 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

.

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