Zero Downtime Backup of MaxDB database with HP Data Protector

MaxDB Application Server configuration
When configuring a MaxDB instance, take care where the following MaxDB volumes will be
configured on the array:
 Data Volumes containing data must reside on splitable disks. It is highly recommended that you locate
data volumes on a dedicated LUN, and that archive redolog
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files are not part of the same location.
– See the screenshot illustrating various data and log volumes of a MaxDB instance in the Archive
log mode section on page 10.
– To query all MaxDB volumes from MaxDB command line, use the param_getvolsall
command. See the second example in the Other useful dmbcli commands
section on page 29.
 Log Volumes that contain redo log files must not be included in ZDB, and therefore should not be
located on the same disks as the data volumes.
Archive log files must be backed up separately using the regular MaxDB-DP integration. These series
of backups will be tracked in Data Protector’s IDB and are used to restore archive log files. For a
particular MaxDB restore, you may have to restore a specific series of MaxDB archive log files, and
for the last archive log restore session, select the appropriate RECOVERY options. See Configuring the
MaxDB-DP integration archive logfile backup specification on page 26 to configure MaxDB archive
log backups.
Figure 2. MaxDB Application Server configuration
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Archive RedoLog files are called version files in MaxDB terminology
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