Backup important files on UX machine

[Jacob_7]

Hi all,

I need to backup sendmail machine without a tape...

So, I need to take all the important files - passwords, hosts, DNS, senmail.cf etc.

Does someone has a list of this files, so I can write script to TAR them?

[Helen French]

Hi Jacob,

Take a look at this guide. This will give you information about all sendmail configuration files:

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90147/B2355-90147.html

HTH,
Shiju

[harry d brown jr]

Use ignite and perform a make_recovery, which can write to a remote tape drive, and the tape contains everything to boot and rebuild your system from. It includes all of the important files for the OS, and it is a tar backup (more likely a pax backup).

If you don't have ignite installed, you should install it and use this method over any you try to build yourself.

live free or die
harry

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

Here is a sample on how to cut the ignite
tape: The tape has a bootable image on the
first section of the tape. The seconda section
chich has all of your important files is
written in tar. pax can be used to recover
files if necessary.

# make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -I -v -a /dev/rmt/0mn

HTH
-Michael

[Bill Hassell]

Since you don't have a tape, it is much simper to use Ignite/UX to run make_net_recovery on another machine. That way, you lose everything on the target, simply replace the disk and restore the root volume group over the network--no tape needed. Get the latest Ignite/UX bits from software.hp.com