Backup Tape Recorder

[Antonio_16]

Please I wish to know how is the best remote command utility to make a backup from a VXFS HP 9000 device to ultra 60 SUN SOLARIS Tape

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Antonio,

If you don't use a backup software like omniback / veritas netbackup then I think the command commands are tar and cpio. You have fbackup on hp side, but don't think it is there on sun side too. You can use dd though.

Hope this helps.

regds

[harry d brown jr]

Gnu's tar will do such:

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html


live free or die
harry

[Volker Borowski]

Hi,

make sure remsh works from HP to SUN.

Do backup then with

tar -cvf - ./directory_to_backup | remsh SUN dd of=/dev/rmt/tapedevice bs=5120

Do restore with

remsh SUN dd if=/dev/rmt/tapedevice bs=5120
| tar -xvf -


Hope this helps
Volker

[Frank Slootweg]

If the Sun Solaris system has rmt(1M), you may be able to use the "-f host:/dev/rmt/..." option of fbackup.

See the comment about /usr/sbin/rmt and /etc/rmt in the fbackup(1M) manual page.

Before actually trying this, make sure that

remsh host whereis rmt

works, as *root* and *without* having to give a password, and return somthing like:

rmt: /usr/sbin/rmt /usr/share/man/man1m.Z/rmt.1m

[Peter Kloetgen]

Hi Antonio,

I agree, that normally you should use tar or cpio if you don't use commercial software, but there is an alternative:

pax is a new command which is available on all UNIXes and is in work for Linux as well. It is able to read every tar- or cpio- format and for these reasons the ideal command if you work between different platforms. The pax- command is planned to be the future industrial standard.

More informations: man pax

Allways stay on the bright side of life!

Peter

[Stanimir]

Hi Antonio,
Borowski solve the problem with
| remsh SUN "dd of=... "
In HP side you can use any comman to create arhive. I use pax -tdwx ustar -f - | remsh ..
JIP