Backup-DVD is a simple script to backup the entiresystem on a rewritable DVD. It is designed to bemanily used as a cron job. It logs operations in/var/log/backup.log and sends feedback by email,and it is fully configurable by editing/etc/backup-dvd/backup-dvd.conf. This scriptcannot be run as sudo; it must be run directly asroot.
Hello AIXians,
I have a corrupted file systems in my AIX server (6.1), which are /var, /home & /opt.
I tried many times to fix them using fsck but it gives me: 'Fatal I/O error'.
So I decided to restore them from bootable mksysb DVD (4 DVDs) after booting from these DVDs.
Every thing was... (0 Replies)
i have an AIX server and planning to upgrade the operating system, before that i want to take a system backup which can be used in case of upgrade failure. i dont have NIM server t hold the mksysb backups. so i have the only option of taking the backup on DVD. i have the following optical drive... (5 Replies)
Trying to backup the VIOS system to DVD using the backupios command. The command completes and reports success yet there is nothing written to the DVD.
Hardware: Blade H series JS23/43
$ ioslevel
2.1.2.13-FP-22.1 SP-02
# lsdev -Cc cdrom
cd0 Available 2.1.2.3- USB DVD R/RW or RAM Drive
... (12 Replies)
Dear All,
I have two intel xeon servers running with SLES 10 on a cluster environment (Veritas Cluster 4.1 - 2 Node Cluster - Active Passive). Both the systems are having hardware RAID 1 for OS disk. Both the systems are having DVD writer.
I would like to take the OS backup on DVD which can... (0 Replies)
BACKUP(8) System Manager's Manual BACKUP(8)NAME
backup - backup files
SYNOPSIS
backup [-djmnorstvz] dir1 dir2
OPTIONS -d At top level, only directories are backed up
-j Do not copy junk: *.Z, *.bak, a.out, core, etc
-m If device full, prompt for new diskette
-n Do not backup top-level directories
-o Do not copy *.o files
-r Restore files
-s Do not copy *.s files
-t Preserve creation times
-v Verbose; list files being backed up
-z Compress the files on the backup medium
EXAMPLES
backup -mz . /f0 # Backup current directory compressed
backup /bin /usr/bin
# Backup bin from RAM disk to hard disk
DESCRIPTION
Backup (recursively) backs up the contents of a given directory and its subdirectories to another part of the file system. It has two typ-
ical uses. First, some portion of the file system can be backed up onto 1 or more diskettes. When a diskette fills up, the user is
prompted for a new one. The backups are in the form of mountable file systems. Second, a directory on RAM disk can be backed up onto hard
disk. If the target directory is empty, the entire source directory is copied there, optionally compressed to save space. If the target
directory is an old backup, only those files in the target directory that are older than similar names in the source directory are
replaced. Backup uses times for this purpose, like make. Calling Backup as Restore is equivalent to using the -r option; this replaces
newer files in the target directory with older files from the source directory, uncompressing them if necessary. The target directory con-
tents are thus returned to some previous state.
SEE ALSO tar(1).
BACKUP(8)