Backup to File across LAN

[J. Mays]

Question:

On HP-UX 11.00 is there a 'best practices' method to do a system backup to a single backup file across a LAN (via mounted drive or other)?

Information:

What I have is a NAS server and a connected drive array. I want to backup our HP-UX system to the NAS instead of to tape. Then, once on the NAS, push that file onto or across tapes as necessary (via the NAS tape array).

If you need more details ... please let me know!

Thank You.

[Bharat Katkar]

This will put tremendous load on messaging network. Do you afford to do that?
By the way how is your Tape Drive / Library connected? where does it stand exactly

[Scott Palmer_1]

if you are using HP data protector, you can specifiy a file name as a tape. Since tape devices and file names are files, it works the same. You have to init the file space and add it into the device pool. Once you do this, the file (a file in a dir on your nas) is treated as a tape for the purposes of the DataProtector backup.

Regards
Scott

[Steven E. Protter]

This is not a problem to do.

You need to mount a filesystem on the NAS and backup up there.

Whatever backup script you use can be configured to use a fileysetm on the NAS.

How this is done depends on the NAS configuration. If this is space that available via NFS then you can just do a mount -nfs command.

If its configured like a windows share, you can use CIFS/9000 to mount it and write to it.

Tell me more about the NAS and I'll provide a specific plan.

SEP

[Geoff Wild]

What you want to do is an acceptable method.

Things to think about:

How much data to backup?

Seperate LAN for backups? so you don't saturate your primary network.

Rgds...Geoff

[Mel Burslan]

Although what you want to do is technically possible, I would not do it unless either you have a G-Bit lan or a separate lan for this purpose. Otherwise neither your backup nor your users on the main lan segment will go anywhere.