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Which methods for full backup(no tape device) of whole system ?

DnD_1 — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:54:12 GMT

hi..

can someone pls suggest which methods i should use to completely backup of the whole system ? where there's no tape device.

usually what we did was ignite net backup.i understand that ignite only backup vg00, and how about the others ?

the bdf of the sys,

Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol3 212992 138480 74136 65% /
/dev/vg00/lvol1 298928 64216 204816 24% /stand
/dev/vg00/lvol8 4718592 578704 4107752 12% /var
/dev/vg00/lvol7 2244608 1320808 916632 59% /usr
/dev/vg00/lvol4 3080192 625320 2439664 20% /tmp
/dev/vg00/lvol6 2736128 1561984 1165032 57% /opt
/dev/vg00/lvol5 32768 12360 20296 38% /home
/dev/vg01/bin
5120000 3533534 1487346 70% /uid/oracle
/dev/vg01/uid
64012288 26335340 35358376 43% /uid/opt
/dev/vg08/uid3
269484032 82511 252563933 0% /uid/db3
/dev/vg05/uid2
182157312 167247804 13977666 92% /uid/db2
/dev/vg03/uid1
455065600 454075173 928582 100% /uid/db1
/dev/vg01/uid 536862720 536462992 396664 100% /uid/db

many thanks !!!

Re: Which methods for full backup(no tape device) of whole system ?

Suraj K Sankari — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:06:55 GMT

Hi,

With Ignite you can take all your file system include vg00 or vg01

# make_net_recovery â x inc_entire=vg00 â x inc_entire=vg01 â x exclude=/tmp

like this you can take your full backup.

Suraj

Re: Which methods for full backup(no tape device) of whole system ?

Ganesan R — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:15:28 GMT

Hi,

make_net_recovery also supports to take backup of other vg's. But it depends how much space you can afford to have on ignite server

You can use tar or fbackup to take the non-vg00 backup and keep it on other server through NFS.

Re: Which methods for full backup(no tape device) of whole system ?

kemo — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:25:49 GMT

hi

use this link.

http://fengnet.com/book/Backup.and.Recovery/I_0596102461_CHP_12_SECT_3.html

thanks
kemo

Re: Which methods for full backup(no tape device) of whole system ?

Jozef_Novak — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:09:47 GMT

Hello,

you can install client of a backup application (if you use one in your environment) and back data up over network to a cell server that has access to a tape device (either local or SAN attached). Examples of enterprise backup applications are Networker, Data Protector, Tivoli, Netbackup or others.

In this way you can backup raw devices, filesystems, integrate your client with databases and many other things.

HTH,
J.

Re: Which methods for full backup(no tape device) of whole system ?

Sajjad Sahir — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:24:41 GMT

Dear DND

Normally vgoo is mainly taking through ignite backup
and other things we can take backup by using backup tools like dp, legato etc...
this is the most common method adapting regarding backup.
u can include other volumes also in ignite
but it is not pretty.

thanks and regards

Sajjad Sahir

Re: Which methods for full backup(no tape device) of whole system ?

DnD_1 — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:26:26 GMT

hi all,

thanks for the suggestion.

in the vg01 vg02 vg03 directories, we have lots of data and configuration files.

if i run the ignite backup, does the data will include in the ignite backup as well ?

/uid/db1/users/data
users1.dbf
users2.dbf
users3.dbf
users4.dbf
users5.dbf
users6.dbf
undotbs1.dbf
system1.dbf
inx.dbf
redo.dbf

Re: Which methods for full backup(no tape device) of whole system ?

Sajjad Sahir — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:40:44 GMT

Dear Friend

what is the use of ignite backup?
it can be used to boot and recover a system
that has become unbootable due to corruption of the root disk or root volume group and normally we are taking ignite backup either in ignite server or tape.
understand ignite mainly using to bring up the system at minimum level.
u can use ignite server or tape to make ignite backup
once u added ignite clients in ignite server u can take the backup of all ignite clients with the help of igniter server
otherwise u havet to take backup of the system in tape or dvd etc...
tap is the more pretty.

thanks and regards

Sajjad Sahir

Re: Which methods for full backup(no tape device) of whole system ?

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:44:59 GMT

Hi:

> in the vg01 vg02 vg03 directories, we have lots of data and configuration files

Please consider that Ignite is _NOT_ intended to be a backup tool for other than cloning or recovering the standard contents of vg00.

You _can_ include non-vg00 filesystems and/or directories, but this limits the usefulness of Ignite images.

In the case of mention, you appear to want to backup database filesystems. Unless you would do this when they are not in use, I would question why you would want to back them up.

If you don't have a local tape drive, it is still incumbent on you to deploy some off-server backup strategy. This might be tape or disk. Use that for your non-vg00 (non-opeerating system) files; not Ignite.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Which methods for full backup(no tape device) of whole system ?

Ganesan R — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:47:40 GMT

Hi,

There are two arguments you can use with make_net_recovery to include or exclude required volumegroups/files.

-x include= ->Includes the file or directory into the archive

-x inc_entire= -> Includes all file systems contained on the volume group.

-x exclude= ->Excludes the file or directory from the archive

Depends upon your requirement you can use the above options. For instance, if you want to take entire vg00 and vg01 and exclude some files from vg01 use this command.

#make_net_recovery -s myserver -x inc_entire=vg00 -x inc_entire=vg01 -x exclude=/uid/db1/users/data/users1.dbf

Re: Which methods for full backup(no tape device) of whole system ?

Suraj K Sankari — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:25:33 GMT

HI,
>>if i run the ignite backup, does the data will include in the ignite backup as well ?

Yes you can take all the data including your vg01, vg02 and so on, but remember you should have that much space at your Ignite Server as well as you have to think about your network. While taking huge data backup through network may your network bit slow during the backup.

One more thing I would suggest you that take a Ignite backup of vg00 and for rest vg's take vxdump this method which we are mostly used at our data center.

Suraj