Backup applications on HP-UX 11.00

[Dragan Krnic]

There used to be an xb/xr for hfs. Fast, neat, cheap, backed up in cpio, tar or dump format, selective or incremental, supported changers, direct retrieval of individual files/dirs. Try www.adiva.de if they ported it to vxfs.

[Joseph T. Wyckoff]

If you are in the U.S., call your sales rep to get a demonstration copy of Omniback. It will install with a 60 day demo license.

If this doesn't work out for you, the the following URL...

http://openview.hp.com/products/omnibackmixed/howtobuy/index.asp?lvl=howtobuy

[Anthony Goonetilleke]

If you don't want to spend the money the laternative to omniback is a suite called amanda (GNU).

Have a look at www.amanda.org

its quite good and free

[Martin Schark]

Hi Annie,

the size of data should force you to use a secure backup solution. I am working as
a consultant in the database server, service guard cluster and SAP area. We have
very good experiences with OmniBack II on NT or/and HP-UX. OBII is even
able to integrate with the applications. You will find more information on this at
http://www.hp.com/go/openview . There is a 60 day's full version available for free
to figure out if OBII fits your needs.

Regards Martin Schark
mailto:mschark@gmx.net

[Bill Hassell]

Just a note about classic backup tgools like tar, pax, dump, cpio, etc. Because they are industry standard tools, their backup formats cannot handle large files. This is particularly important as file sizes for databases far exceed the 2 Gb limit for classic Unix files.

There are freeware tools like the GNU utilities which may handle large files but if the data is critically important, these tools do not have error recovery needed for a production system. A simple parity error on a tape can render the rest of the backup inaccessible. And these tools often use a distributed directory rather than a central index. This means that the entire tape must be read to determine the contents.

Commercial backup tools should have high speed search capability for restores. They should handle not only multiple tapes, perhaps in a tape changer, but also allow backups to several tape drives in parallel for high speed backups.

[Vincente Fernandes]

Omiback II seems to be a good feasible option the amount of data you have. You need to only decide whether you can pay for it or it satisfies your requirements.