Backup and recovery

[dave broome_1]

HP D_370
HPUX 10.20

We have a full system backup scheduled to run once a week. I did not set the job up. I can see the job through SAM backup and recovery -> automated backups. Our backup runs out of tape space before completing. The strange thing is that the index file I create which lists the content of the tape does not match the "files to backup" on the job in SAM, i.e there are directories included on the tape that I cannot see included in the backup job?? I can see what area is blowing the tape backup but if that area of disk is not included in the "files to backup" then how do I exclude them to get a full, clean backup??


Any thoughts???

Dave

[Tom Jackson]

Hi Dave:

If I were you, I would start over with backups. You can comment out the current crontab entry as a safety net, then I would try to develop a new backup strategy and process.

First, I would make an ignite tape for your root volume. This is your system and applications recovery tape.

Next, you need to backup data with scheduled backups. Hopefully your disk partitions aren't larger than your tape capacity.

If you can't fit all of your data on a single tape then I would stagger the backups so that half of the disks/partitions are backed up in one job, then the other half are backed up in a separate job. Make sure you use the compressed device.

To

[Stanimir]

Hi!
I thing nothing is wrong with your system.
Check again your "graphfile" and it's "i" and "e"-indexes. Try to do new backup.
If need, show here the contents of "graphfile"
and the row,used in cron.
Regards.

[dave broome_1]

Here are the contents of the graph file ...
i /
i /stand
i /var
i /usr
i /users
i /tmp
i /oracle
i /opt
i /home
i /u01
i /u02
i /u03
i /u04
i /u05
i /u06


The area that gets included is /source, as you can see it doesn't appear in the above list.

dave

[dave broome_1]

what is meant by "i" and "e"-indexes??

[john korterman]

Hi Dave,
i means include, e would mean exclude, e.g.:
e /source
which will exclude /source. As you have included the root directory and not explicitly excluded /source, it will probably be included in the backup.

regards,
John K.

[dave broome_1]

thanks for that, I'll give it a try.