HP Operations Manager for UNIX Administrator’s Reference

Maintaining HPOM
Backing up Data on the Management Server
About Automatic Backups
To carry out a complete automatic backup of the database while the GUI
and server processes are running, HPOM integrates its own backup and
restore scripts with those provided by the Network Node Manager
(NNM):
❏ ovbackup.ovpl
❏ ovrestore.ovpl
Automatic backups are designed to be run with cron jobs or through
scheduled HPOM actions. For more information about the automatic
NNM backup scripts, as well as the automated-backup scripts provided
by HPOM, see “About the ovbackup.ovpl Command” on page 392 and
“About the ovrestore.ovpl Command” on page 394.
Advantages of Automatic Backups
Automatic backups have the following advantages:
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HPOM GUI
There is no need to exit the HPOM GUI, although OVW actions are
not possible for a short time.
Processes and Services
HPOM server processes, HPOM Operator Web GUI services, trouble
ticket services, and notification services remain fully operational.
Database
Partial recovery of the Oracle database is possible.
For example, you could recover the Oracle database as follows:
• Up to a given time
• Individual damaged tablespaces
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