HP StorageWorks Application Recovery Manager Administrator's Guide (T4395-96004, February 2008)

Internal Database Maintenance
Backing up the IDB
Chapter 574
Backing up the IDB
You must perform Internal Database backups regularly; it is best to
perform them daily. Once the IDB backup is performed regularly, the
most important preparation for recovery in case of a disaster is done. The
IDB recovery is essential for restore of other backed up data if the Cell
Manager crashes.
It is recommended that you keep several backups of the internal
database. Keep at least two backup versions.
Use the dbtool.pl command to back up the internal database and
configuration.
The command syntax and examples are provided in the HP
StorageWorks Application Recovery Manager Command Line Interface
Reference.
NOTE In the below steps, it is assumed that the perl.exe command is in the
search path list for commands (defined by the environment variable
PATH). If not, specify the full pathname.
Choose a backup location for the database. The location must be
accessible from the Cell Manager and fault tolerant.
1. Configure the backup location and backup behavior:
cd <AppRM_home>\bin
perl.exe dbtool.pl -config Root=<backup_location>
SizeLimit=<limit>MB CountLimit=<number_of_kept_backups>
2. To manually start the backup, run:
perl.exe dbtool.pl -backup
3. To schedule the backup:
• Use the Windows Scheduled Tasks wizard (part of the System
Tools) and add the following command to the list of scheduled
tasks:
perl.exe <AppRM_home>\bin\dbtool.pl -backup