About the automated backup function

To provide a contingency to this unlikely scenario, there exists in Netcool/OMNIbus an out-of-the-box feature that periodically backs up the ObjectServer to copies of the master_store.tab and table_store.tab files. The default setting for this feature is to back up the ObjectServer every 5 minutes and the function stores at most 2 copies of files that are taken 5 minutes apart.To provide a contingency to this unlikely scenario, there exists in Netcool/OMNIbus an out-of-the-box feature that periodically backs up the ObjectServer to copies of the master_store.tab and table_store.tab files. The default setting for this feature is to back up the ObjectServer every 5 minutes and the function stores at most 2 copies of files that are taken 5 minutes apart.

Note: The number of previous stored backups is defined by the setting of the num_backups variable within the automatic_backup trigger and can be modified to suit requirements.
It is recommended to enable this feature for production environments, particularly at the Aggregation layer. The feature is enabled simply by enabling the automatic_backup trigger.

Before enabling this feature, additional disk space should be provisioned to the disk partition where IBM Netcool/OMNIbus is installed to accommodate the additional backup files. The additional spacerequired can be calculated by multiplying the existing master_store.tab andtable_store.tab file sizes by 2 – for example: for the two additional sets of files. The automaticbackup feature will automatically overwrite old backup files and only save the last two backups, hence no manual file management is required.

Note: Before the automatic backup system will successfully run, the Netcool administrator needs to create the backup directory: $OMNIHOME/backup/
The resulting master_store.tab and table_store.tab files are a fully self-contained snapshot of the ObjectServer at the moment the backup was taken. These files can be copied into the target ObjectServer’s database directory before starting an ObjectServer to restore it to the desired state. These files can also be copied to another machine, for example, a test machine, provided the target hardware is of the same architecture.