The dump and restore commands are missing from this server under SuSE 11.4 for unknown reasons. What is the cleanest way to backup and restore filesystems? Clean means to keep all the original hard/soft links and timestamps. Is find/cpio clean enough?
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Hi Guys,
I'm not new to UNIX but I am new to HP-UX. I have a proven backup and restore procedue using cpio on Solaris, however, the filesystem structure appears to be different on HP. Can anybody help me with the following questions?
1) What is the best method for performing a... (7 Replies)
Hi.... everyone could help me to understand how to do a backup of my servers .. operating systems is sun solaris 8 .
I have some question about ....
1) Is better backup phisical disk or partition ???
i sow the command is ufsdump 0cfu /expbck/bcksunver/c0t0d0s5 dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 to... (4 Replies)
I have several H80 machines, all with AIX 4.3.3. On these machines I have mksysb running for rootvg backups and savevg for non-rootvg backups.
I'm trying to get a list of files on the tapes, but I can't seem to do it with tar for the mksysb images. I keep getting the directory checksum errors?... (3 Replies)
Hello!
i have a blank harddrive and a complete tape backup of the workstation.
the backup is made with F-Backup.
Now my question is:
how can i restore my workstation?
thanks for every idea!
paul tittel
hup-si (3 Replies)
Hello,
We are trying to find a easy way to upgrade our old suse 8 boxes to Suse 9. I have discovered the the DD command that looks to be a way to restore a image from Suse 9 to a box at our other locations.
Question, could I use the DD command to restore a image I backed up from a Suse 9 box... (1 Reply)
Hello Experts,
I am very new to unix environment.
Root filesystem in one of our Linux boxes has almost reached 100%. is there a procedure/ way to resize the root filesystem.
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ld8331:/ # df -h|more
Filesystem Size Used... (2 Replies)
I am doing a practice restore using a test UNIX(Solaris) system, and a SCSI Hard Drive whose slice 5 contains the Flash Archive file that I need to restore from.
The test system is offline( no network ) and does not have external devices, such as tape drive. My goal is to somehow restore the... (9 Replies)
Hi experts, i got a question.
i have a production server with two Volume Group(VG) which are rootvg and datavg. Both of these VGs are 256 PP SIZE.
On Disaster Recovery Server (DR server) contains two empty hardisks for restoring rootvg and datavg from production server. This two hardisks are... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I need to back up a RH file system (96G).
The files are oracle .dbf format some of which are 5G in size.
I know that tar has got a size restriction of 2G so I cannot use this.
Can anyone recommend an alternative way of backuping up this FS?
I have been looking at dump but this... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have taken a backup of filesystem " /backup " by using backupby file name command on tape
Mount volume 1 on /dev/rmt0.
Press Enter to continue. Backing up to /dev/rmt0.
Cluster 51200 bytes (100 blocks).
Volume 1 on /dev/rmt0
a 0 /backup
a 543 /backup/abc_log ... (3 Replies)