topic Re: Remote backups to disk in Operating System - HP-UX

Remote backups to disk

Henry Weldon — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 18:24:46 GMT

I have apx. 100 HP-UX servers and I wish to backup the OS to disk onto a remote server so that we can eliminate local tape backups. We have implemented Ignite-UX backups remotely but are having problems trying to redirect the fbackups to a remote file system. Any suggestions on how best to accomplish this? Any non-fbackup solutions? Most of our servers are backed up by TSM, however it is very slow to restore. Our goal is reduce operator work load for backups, yet maintain quick restores. The large volumes of backups is performed just before and after we start our quarterly masive HP patching sessions.

Re: Remote backups to disk

harry d brown jr — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 18:45:31 GMT

You say you want to remotely backup the OS, and then you mix the words ignite and fbackup in there. Are you saying you are doing a make_net_recovery, and it works ok. And that you now want to backup your data to disk using fbackup? If you want to remotely backup, fbackup will write to disk. You can also get gnu's tar.

what are the options on fbackup that caused the failure?

live free or die
harry

Re: Remote backups to disk

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:08:36 GMT

Hi Henry:

Ignite is the only truly satisfactory way for making "disaster-recovery" backups of vg00, that is, should you need to rebuild vg00.

For using 'fbackup' with remote tape drives, the '-f server:device' construct is what is used, e.g. '-f pluto:/dev/rmt/0m'

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Remote backups to disk

G. Vrijhoeven — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:11:28 GMT

Hi,

I guess you only want the root volume on backup.

1.The fastest way to get there is create an other mirror (lvextend -m1(2)) on all the logical volumes and
splits them of again.

2. create an golddisk (make recovery boot cdrom) and restore these disks in case of an emergency.

3. create a ignite ux installation server.

Hope this will help.

Gideon

Re: Remote backups to disk

Henry Weldon — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:21:29 GMT

fbackup to remote tape drive works. fbackup to a local file works. fbackup to a file on a remote servers file system fails. Any ideas on how to accomplish this?

Re: Remote backups to disk

Henry Weldon — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 21:03:29 GMT

I found the answer. From a remote site enter remsh target-host "/usr/sbin/fbackup -f - -i /" | /usr/bin/cat > /outputdir/target-host

This will create backup of target-host on remote host file system.

Re: Remote backups to disk

Sanjay_6 — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 21:12:52 GMT

Hi Henry,

Maybe this link will help.

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=10bfcc1906bbaa6dbb/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000006434226

Hope this helps.

Regds