AIX

Hello all. This is my first post on here and I have a question. Recently I was asked how you would go about backing up data from the server to a tape drive that is attached to the RS/6000 system. Assuming that the systems are all new it would be great if someone has a step by step guide that would show how to go about doing a full or incremental backup of data from the server to the tape drive. Thanks for the responses!

Depends on what you want to backup.

For a system backup please have a look here

For data backups have a look here or do savevg if you want to backup entire volumegroups.

For oracle DBs you probably want to use rman backups directly to tape.

Hope that helps
regards
zxmaus

Hi, thanks for responding. I've now come to know that there is a way to do this backup by running something called "smitty" which is a GUI form instead of a command line form. Could someone tell me how I can go about doing this? I'm going for a data backup where an entire drive will be backed up to tape. I'm looking for a solution that can do this using all the internal functions of the OS without resorting to third party apps as the company to whom the server belongs prefers not to install anything on it.

use mksysb in a script via a cron job.

a mksysb will back up all the files in your rootvg. If you have other volume groups on your box, the mksysb will not back them up. If you do a "lsvg", do you see anything more than just "rootvg"?