Clean Full UNIX Backup from a single user mode

[Muhammad Al-Huwaidi]

Hi,
How I can make a clean Full UNIX (HP-UX:11.00)Backup from a single user mode and I want to back it up to different DLT drive and tapes to make it faster.

Please advise.
Thank You.

[steven Burgess_2 · Accepted solution]

Hi

#:\> fbackup -0v -i / -f :/dev/rmt/????

Regards

Steve

[steven Burgess_2]

Hi

Here's the explanation for fbackup to remote device

There is slightly different behavior if remote devices are used. A device on the remote machine can be specified in the form machine:device. fbackup creates a server process from /usr/sbin/rmt on the remote machine to access the tape device. If /usr/sbin/rmt does not exist on the remote system, fbackup creates a server process from /etc/rmt on the remote machine to access the tape device. Only half-inch 9-track magnetic tapes or DDS-format tapes can be remote devices. The fast search and save set marks capabilities are not used when remote DDS-format devices are used.


Regards

Steve

[Muhammad Al-Huwaidi]

Hi,
The tow drives are locally connected to the server it is not remote

[steven Burgess_2]

Hi

man fbackup

-f device

If more than one output file is specified, fbackup uses each one successively and then repeats in a cyclical pattern.

I also think you will have to mount all the filesystems from single user

mount -a

if you don't specify the dvice fbackup defaults to /dev/rmt/0m

Is this what you are after?

Steve

[steven Burgess_2]

Hi

To make fbackup more efficent you can create a config file containing the following

more fbackconf

blocksperrecord 256
records 32
checkpointfreq 1024
readerprocesses 6
maxretries 5
retrylimit 5000000
maxvoluses 200
filesperfsm 2000

Then from your command specify the config file with -c

fbackup -v -i / -f /dev/rmt/m -c //fbackconf

Steve