topic Fbackup/Remote in Operating System - HP-UX

Fbackup/Remote

Nobody's Hero — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:11:28 GMT

Ok, The way I see it is:

If you are doing a remote backup using fbackup, you can only use DDS or 6track magnetic...NOT DLT.

Is this correct?

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Re: Fbackup/Remote

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:29:06 GMT

Why not?

The only issue at hand for HP-9000 systems is they can't share tape drives.

You can't run fbackup on machine 1 and use machine 2's drive. That applies to all drive types.

Veritas Media manager lets you share tape drives among machines.

If remote backup means log in and run a backup script then you're wrong. If it means something else, I'm confused, as explained above.

SEP

Re: Fbackup/Remote

Helen French — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:32:51 GMT

That information is wrong. You can use almost all magnetic tapes for remote fbackup (including DLT).

Re: Fbackup/Remote

Darren Prior — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 06:03:16 GMT

Hi,

Shiju is correct, remote backup is possible and there isn't a limitation on drive type.

Eg: fbackup can be run on machine a, but remotely using machine b's drive by using the fbackup -f machineb:/dev/rmt/1m syntax as per the fbackup man page.

Using fbackup remotely means that it isn't aware of the tape type, also you won't have fast search markers.

regards,

Darren.

Re: Fbackup/Remote

Bernhard Mueller — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 06:15:56 GMT

Robert,

if there are problems then most likely due to no remsh capabilities (.rhosts file).

Regards
Bernhard