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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory Backup Suggestions. Post 30087 by Cameron on Wednesday 16th of October 2002 03:55:17 PM
Old 10-16-2002
Backup Suggestions.

Hi all,

Have two SCO 5.0.5 systems and one Slackware(joy?) system.

I've been asked to backup all three systems onto a newly acquired AIT Tape drive that we've installed on one of the SCO boxes.

Using the existing cpio backup script on the one SCO works a treat and is really fast (which is a good thing), but I'd like some suggestions regarding what I should be directing my attention to in order to backup all three servers onto this one tape.

nb - All three servers have their own DAT tape drives, the SCO boxes currently use cpio and the Slackware(*shudder*) uses tar for their respective backup processes.

Am looking at the possible use of rsync (from www.rsync.org), where I've recently used in a Irix to Irix transfer (not to tape) of webdata with success. I'm open to any suggestions.

Any help greatly appreciated, got seven days before I go on holidays and I'd like to get it done before then.
 

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BACKUP_LISTHOSTS(8)					       AFS Command Reference					       BACKUP_LISTHOSTS(8)

NAME
       backup_listhosts - Lists Tape Coordinators registered in the Backup Database

SYNOPSIS
       backup listhosts [-localauth] [-cell <cell name>] [-help]

       backup listh [-l] [-c <cell name>] [-h]

DESCRIPTION
       The backup listhosts command displays the Backup Database record of the port offset numbers defined for Tape Coordinator machines. A Tape
       Coordinator must have an entry in the list to be available for backup operations.

       The existence of an entry does not necessarily indicate that the Tape Coordinator process (butc) is currently running at that port offset.
       To check, issue the backup status command.

OPTIONS
       -localauth
	   Constructs a server ticket using a key from the local /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile file. The backup command interpreter presents it to
	   the Backup Server, Volume Server and VL Server during mutual authentication. Do not combine this flag with the -cell argument. For more
	   details, see backup(8).

       -cell <cell name>
	   Names the cell in which to run the command. Do not combine this argument with the -localauth flag. For more details, see backup(8).

       -help
	   Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.

OUTPUT
       After a "Tape hosts:" header, the output reports two things about each Tape Coordinator currently defined in the Backup Database:

       o   The hostname of the machine housing the Tape Coordinator. The format of this name depends on the hostname format used when the backup
	   addhost command was issued.

       o   The Tape Coordinator's port offset number.

       The Tape Coordinators appear in the order in which they were added to the Backup Database.

EXAMPLES
       The following example shows the result of the command in the ABC Corporation cell:

	  % backup listhosts
	  Tape hosts:
	      Host backup1.abc.com, port offset 0
	      Host backup1.abc.com, port offset 1
	      Host backup3.abc.com, port offset 4
	      Host backup2.abc.com, port offset 3

PRIVILEGE REQUIRED
       The issuer must be listed in the /etc/openafs/server/UserList file on every machine where the Backup Server is running, or must be logged
       onto a server machine as the local superuser "root" if the -localauth flag is included.

SEE ALSO
       backup(8), backup_addhost(8), backup_delhost(8), backup_status(8)

COPYRIGHT
       IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved.

       This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0.  It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas
       Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell.

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