Backup Methods

[Jennifer Lam]

Hi All,
I have all systems running with HPUX-10.20 & 11.00. I would like to do backup all, but I don't know what method is the best - save time to do archive & mininize time to bring up the system after scratch.
Would you let me know the advantage & disavantage of Ignite network archive compare with Ignite tape recovery method.
Can we using tar method to do bakup and install the entire system. How to do it; and the advantage & disadvantage.
Thank you
Regards
Jen

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi Jen,

Ignite is the fastest restore method if your system crashes. You can boot from the tape/network en it completely recovers vg00. It does not matter if you do it by tape or over the network. If you have a tape drive per server (DDS) there is nothing wrong with the tape backup. If not a network backup is just as good. You can even boot in other networks if you install boot helpers.

I would not use tar for system backup but i prefere fbackup since it is faster and has less problems with large number of files and files > 2 GB.

Gideon

[John Carr_2]

Hi

ignite already answered just wish to say you can not make a system recovery tape with tar ignite was designed to do exactly this and is free of charge :-) John.

[Vijaya Kumar_3]

Also I would suggest to get Omniback / Data protector for your Environment. It is great if you have a tape library.

Other than that, you can use fbackup. It is really great Hp utility for backup purposes.

Also I can tell you to use amanda for backup purposes. It is open source. I know it is little bit hard to configure.

Hope this helps
Vijay

[MarkSyder]

Hi Jen,

If you've got the disc space how about doing both?

I backup systems over the network and then copy to tape. This way I can restore a system from either. Most of the workstations I support don't have a tape drive, so network backup means I can restore a system without having to power things off and attach a tape drive. But I have the option to do so if necessary.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)