Backup

[Jean Samarani]

Hello Community,

is it possible to use ignite-ux to backup a system ( including the database, applications not only the OS etc..) and being able to recover it completely as it was ?

if not is there any other tools or methods for efficient full backup ?

thanks for your help !

Jean

[Anshumali · Accepted solution]

Is it possible: Yes for sure. :)
Will be working for DB/Apps: Depends if they support hot backup while changes are happening.
Other Tools:RMAN(Oracle), DataProtector
Need More thoghts: Refer below

http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1272527516539+28353475&threadId=1340801

Cheers!
Anshu

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,
Yes its is possible,
Default setting of Ignite backup is taking only vg00 you can add other file system also.

#make_tape_recovery â x inc_entire=vg00 â x inc_entire=vg01

like you can add more vg's,

Suraj

[Suraj K Sankari]

here is without junk character

#make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -x inc_entire=vg01

Suraj

[Jean Samarani]

thanks guys for the clarification but is it possible to elaborate more on the below concern ?

" Will be working for DB/Apps: Depends if they support hot backup while changes are happening."

[Dennis Handly]

>is it possible to elaborate more on the below concern? Depends if they support hot backup while changes are happening."

ignite is NOT an enterprise strength backup utility. If you are writing to a file or database, inconsistent info will be restored. Especially if multiple files have to be in sync.

>is there any other tools or methods for efficient full backup?

There is fbackup(1m), not supported beyond 11.31.
And you can use HP's Data Protector as Anshumali said.

[Pete Randall]

And generally your DB will have it's own backup utilities which will do a much better job than Ignite's simple tar.


Pete

[Jean Samarani]

thanks All for you kind help but can anyone advise how can we use the tape ( How to mount it to be more specific). our model is DAT 160.

appreciate your help again!

[Pete Randall]

Run

ioscan -fnCtape

Status should show CLAIMED and there should be a driver listed. Assuming both those things are true, you simply run your backup command. Using tar as an example:

tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0m {backup specification}


Pete