topic Re: "snapshot" function from NA in Operating System - HP-UX

"snapshot" function from NA

Chun-Pang Li — Thu, 13 Jul 2000 07:03:42 GMT

Hi,

Anyone knows any SW from 3rd party or shareware which can perform the same function as NA's snapshot?

Thanks!!

Re: "snapshot" function from NA

Andreas Voss — Thu, 13 Jul 2000 07:18:38 GMT

Hi,

don't know whats NA but for snapshoting X-Windows you can use xv.
This tool can grab any window from your X display. You can get it here:
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/X11/Viewers/xv-3.10a/

Greetings

Andrew

Re: "snapshot" function from NA

Chun-Pang Li — Thu, 13 Jul 2000 07:31:48 GMT

Sorry,

Let me clarify the NA: stands for Network Appliance, they ship the system box which can perform the NFS server function only.

Re: "snapshot" function from NA

Andy Monks — Thu, 13 Jul 2000 10:24:03 GMT

it wouldn't be difficult to configure any unix machine to just be an nfs server.

You just need to change /etc/services, /etc/inetd.conf and then change what subsystems are started by removing links in the /sbin/rcX.d directory that is your runlevel.

Re: "snapshot" function from NA

Andreas Voss — Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:05:26 GMT

Hi,

hope now to know what you mean:
Doing an snapshot of a filesystem ?
If so you have to purchase OnLineJFS product from HP (Advanced VxFS) (B3928AA for HP-UX 10.20, B3929BA for HP-UX 11.00)
It's an extension for the journaled filesystem.
With this SW you can make a snapshot(copy) of a running filesystem for backup purposes.