AIX

Hi,

My situation is to write a backup script for AIX server which doesnt have a tape mounted.

They have created a folder on windows so that all AIX backup files can be moved to that windows folder where they will put these AIX backup files on a tape.


Appreciate help.

Regards
dsrules.

I dun support aix but some years I did, back then I remember we did something like this.

I suppose you will have to backup your data to your unix local folder since your aix server dun have a tape drive. use tar or cp or something, if oracle database you have to either export dump file or freeze-cp-unfreeze each tablespace datafile.

alter tablespace abcdef begin backup
!cp -p /u01/data/somedata.dbf /somefolder
alter tablespace abcdef end backup

Then after that from your windows server you write a FTP script and schedule it to automatic logon to unix box to get the files

check man pages for netrc, ftp how you can get some idea

Hi Sparcguy,

Please do you have some sample code for the same UNIX and oracle dumps.

Appreciate your help.

Thanks

Dsrules

What kind of backup do you need?

- a system backup without (with?) data?
- just the data?
- a bootable backup?

Depending on what your objective is there are different methods (backup, savevg, mksysb, etc..)

I hope this helps.

bakunin

no sorry I dun have it anymore

Hi,

Try this:
find . -print | backup -ipf- > /backup_folder/backup_file
Then you can copy the result file to your Windows server.

Greets,
Yac.

Due to office political reasons I cannot run mksysb to tape in one of my offices, though there are two robots attached to the AIX server, each with a tape drive. What I do is use mkcd and create iso images, sftp them to a Windows box on the same LAN. Then if things really go south I can burn those to CD and recover that way. There is also the mkdvd command if your AIX server can read DVD's. Mine can't, don't ask.

I've detailed the smitty use of the mkcd command at the url mksyscd ? - comp.unix.aix | Google Groups

After you have created the iso's using smit you can automate the command by picking it out of ~/smit.script. To automate you would want to remove the temporary file systems after using mkcd/mkdvd. YMMV.