Backup of a filesystem on another ftp server

[Vipin Singhal]

Should i try with these commands:

#cd /opt
#tar -cf - ./oracle | ssh "cd /home ; tar -xvf -"

is it ./oracle or /oracle ??
will it copy all the directories under oracle directory?

[Generic User OI IIS · Accepted solution]

Hi Vipin,
For enabling remsh, see the last post of James Ferguson. When you have it enabled, you must use "./oracle"

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Vipin,

If you are starting fresh, consider scp as an rcp replacement.

scp -rp * targethost:/targetdirectory

Will do the trick.

I've seen in all of these methods under certain circumstances the copy isn't good. This is not a highly reliable way to back up the files.

I would suggest this:

Online JFS snapshots.

In summary, you create a temporary logical volume about 20% the size of the lv being backed up. While the snapshot is in place all writes go tot he temporary lvol.

While this is happening, you can get a good, clean copy of the filesystem in question. You can use fbackup, its like the filesystem isn't being used.

Then close the snapshot, all writes to the temporary lvol get written to the original and there is no downtime at all.

SEP

[Vipin Singhal]

# scp -rp user@host:/
admin@170.118.8.54's password:
sh: scp: command not found
lost connection

I am able to use ftp.
but how can i copy directories using ftp?

[Vipin Singhal]

# /opt/ssh/bin/scp -rp oui admin@111.111.1.11:/Backup/dipper/dipper_opt_oracle_171105/
ssh: connect to host 111.111.1.11 port 22: Connection timed out
lost connection


please suggest what to do
thanks
vipin