How do I backup SRB space, both SRB data and MCAT metadata?
It is a good idea to backup the MCAT database daily. If your MCAT DBMS (Oracle, DB2, etc) can do hot backups, then you can do it when the system is being used. Otherwise, you will need to stop the SRB (killsrb), do the cold backup and then restart the SRB. As for the files stored under the SRB, one can do it in multiple ways: The first and easist is to backup the storage resource directory (for example, the SRBVault directory), as an incremental backup. Depending upon your system, you can do it on the fly or during PMs. Weekly PMs will be helpful. A second startegy is to make sure that there are replicated copies of the file in two distributed storage systems which hopefully don’t share any hardware and are geographically separated. This can be done either under user-control (replicate only those that are needed) or under srbAdmin control (possible with 3.0.2 release soon) which will replicate all files that are modified to a particular backup resource. A third strategy, is to use the
