UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I would like to know if I can do a full system back up on my HP Unix Machine. If so, What is the syntax to do this or where can I find this information at? Also, is it possible to make this tape bootable so that I can easily do a full system restore? Any information on this would be appreciated!!!
Thanks!



APASuper8

Check out the man pages for dump, rdump, and restore. I don't believe you can boot from the tape but would have to boot from a cdrom to single user and then you should have the commands to do the restore.

You can find more information at docs.hp.com. Do a search from there on full backup.

One other thing to think about is, if you're LVM/VG, you should look into, I think it's called vgbackup, so that on a restore, you can recreate your logical volumes. -mk

HP-UX has a proprietary scheme for backups in addition to the standard UNIX utilities. This scheme includes the fbackup and frecover commands. The basic syntax of the fbackup command is:

# fbackup -f Device [0-9] [-u] [-i path] [-e path] [-g graph]

fbackup does not by default write to standard output, the -f option is not optional. Device can be a file, device file, or a remote device file. A remote device file takes the form machine:/dev/device_name. You can specify - as the device to have fbackup write to standard output. The [0-9] option provides for incremental backups an n level backup includes all files modified since the last n - 1 level backup. The -i, -e, and -g options provide a means of specifying which portions of a file system you want backed up. . fbackup allows you to include a file system with the -i option and exclude portions of it with the -e option. For example:

# fbackup -f /dev/rmt/c201d3m 0 -i /usr -e /usr/tmp

If you cant seems to use this commands try frecover.

Use "sam". You can do full backups, and scheduled backup via the sam interface.

(BTW, it uses fbackup to backup the files...)

Also, you can use vgcfgbackup and vgcfgrestore to back up and restore LVM configuration information for volume groups.