adhoc backup

[Ravinder Singh Gill]

Hi guys,

We are going to carry out some work on one of our servers. I need to do a backup of only certain filesystems (the affected areas). Rather then running a full backup, what are the commands to do this? Can anybody please advise?

Thanks.

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

It is always useful to have a full system backup before changes. What is the total size of all the file systems?

Which file systems you want to backup?
If these are OS file systems you can take ignite and exclude some file systems from it.

If it is not root file systems then all backup commands have tool to specify directories.

HTH,
Devender

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Ravinder.

The fbackup command can back up certain filesystems. That can be done from the command line or the sam backup and recovery interface.

Make sure if you are backing up a database, the database is not open and running otherwise the copy will be useless.

Example:

fbackup -f /dev/rmt/0m -i/usr

That will back up the /usr filesystem to tape.

SEP

[Peter Godron]

Ravinder,
I use sam to do backups of specified filesystems.
Also: Happy anniversary of becoming a ITRC member!