topic Re: device for fbackup required??? in Operating System - HP-UX

device for fbackup required???

Supen Kumar Khan — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:52:22 GMT

what kind of device file is required for "fbackup" in HP-UX11iv1 and what are the returns of successfull fbackup? Please help me

Re: device for fbackup required???

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:03:58 GMT

Shalom,

fbackup requires a valid tape device.

All you should need to do is connect a scsi tape drive and run insf -e as I wrote to your other thread.

A reboot of the system will perform the device creation.

As far as I know fbackup will not create backups to disk, although I'm sure it can probably be fooled into doing so.

SEP

Re: device for fbackup required???

Peter Leddy_1 — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:08:11 GMT

Hi,

It doesn't really matter what tape device you use, fbackup always rewinds the tape before it begins its backup. For more details on fbackup look at "man fbackup" and also look at page 685 of the "Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators" at

http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11i.html#System%20Administration

it covers backing up using fbackup.

Regards,

Peter