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Operating Systems Solaris How to backup when there is no tape available? Post 302893436 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 19th of March 2014 09:00:22 AM
Old 03-19-2014
So is this a single disk server then? It would seem so.

It might be worth taking a partition map too to aid your recovery if you have to slice a replacement disk. If you run format you will probably get a list of one disk, c1t0s0. Select it, then go for Partition, then Print. This detail can be useful for ensuring your restore will fit the space you might need to reallocate following a completely failed drive.

Keep it with your dump files on another server, and whilst you are at it, keep more than one copy and refresh them regularly.

Some questions that remain:-
  • Do you have the space to do this?
  • Are you planning on storing server A on server B and Server B on server A?
If so, then the dump files of server A will get included in the dump of server B and written back to server A, then the next backup of server A will get the image of server B including the images of server A, so these would grow exponentially.

Have you got a server or pair available just to hold the dumps of all the others? Although it was a little flippant, my suggestion is still to buy a tape drive. That way, you can get your copies off-site in case you lose the building to fire/flood/engineering/power cut etc.


Robin
 

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BACKUP_DELDUMP(8)					       AFS Command Reference						 BACKUP_DELDUMP(8)

NAME
backup_deldump - Deletes a dump level from the Backup Database SYNOPSIS
backup deldump -dump <dump level name> [-localauth] [-cell <cell name>] [-help] backup deld -d <dump level name> [-l] [-c <cell name>] [-h] DESCRIPTION
The backup deldump command deletes the indicated dump level and all of its child dump levels from the dump hierarchy in the Backup Database. Use the backup listdumps command to display the dump hierarchy. OPTIONS
-dump <dump level name> Specifies the complete pathname of the dump level to delete. -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. EXAMPLES
The following command deletes the dump level "/sunday1/monday1" from the dump hierarchy, along with any of its child dump levels. % backup deldump /sunday1/monday1 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_adddump(8), backup_listdumps(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. OpenAFS 2012-03-26 BACKUP_DELDUMP(8)
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