Dear frnds,
i am going to use hp-ux11i first time, actually migrated from true64unix(digital), Now confused with the backup and restore procedures, i was using vdump and vrestore in that which was really much comfortable.could you suggest which is best type backup(similar to vdump and vrestore) for periodical archiving and daily archiving. if it is possible will us pls mail me what is the backup script to backup /,/data,/kind etc in a single tape drive and how it would be restored.

regards

In HP there is a very nice thing called make_tape_recovery (or something very similar). It backs up the entire OS including the boot areas and stuff, and backs up the files using tar.
Then to restore from that tape, when you boot the system, make sure that the tape is inside the tape drive and then give the command to search for bootable paths. It will show you the tape. You can directly boot off the tape and a menu based interface will allow you to restore.

thanks blowtorch, but i need set by set backup , and its restore. i think make_tape_recovary is for standalone purpose.

HP used to use HFS filesystems exclusively. For HFS filesystems, you can use dump/restore. But HP is moving to VXFS filesystems. For VXFS filesystems, you can use vxdump/vxrestore. And fbackup/frecover work with any filesystem.

thanks perdrabo, but still i have a doubt with fbackp/frestore, will it work with norewind option, if it is not, how we can use the same tape for another set of backup from its continuation. i mean today i am taking a backup of /kind fileset on a tape and tomarrow on the same tape after /kind i need to take /option fileset. how it is possible. in digital unix norewind of vdump wil handle this situation.

If I'm not mistaken, you just have to specify the 'n' as part of the device name that you specify to prevent rewind. And if you do rewind, you can use the 'mt' command to roll the tape forward by as many markers as you need. You have to use the fsf command under mt for that.

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I said make_tape_recovery because I thought that you wanted to backup/restore your OS.
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You cannot put a second session on a fbackup tape. It will explicitly issue a rewind after open to make sure this does not happen.