Hi,

I am a abit new in AIX system administration field. I want to gather knowledge about backup techniques. As per my knowledge we use Tape archives for taking backups. Can anyone pls explain me in detail abt tape archive? Whether these tape archives come along with the systems or we have to install them seperately?

When we use dump command to take the backups of all the file system does the filesystem automatically gets backed up in the tape archive device? we shall we have to specify the path??