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About Offline Backups
Maintaining OVO
Backing up Data on the Management Server
You can use the opc_backup tool to perform partial or full backups of
data on the management server:
❏ Partial Backup
OVO configuration data only. Includes current messages and history
messages.
❏ Full Backup
Includes the OVO binaries and installation defaults.
In either case, you have to shut down all OVO GUIs and stop all
OpenView services, including the OVO server processes. Then, you shut
down the Oracle database, and perform an offline backup.
Advantages of Offline Backups
Backing up data offline has the following advantages:
❏ Archive log mode is not needed:
Better overall performance
Less disk space required
❏ Binaries are backed up (if full mode is used).
Disadvantages of Offline Backups
Backing up data offline has the following disadvantages:
❏ You can recover data only to the state of the most recent full backup.
❏ You must stop all OV services and GUIs.
Types of Offline Backup Functions
For an overview of the backup functions, see man pages opc_backup(1M)
and opc_recover(1M).
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