Creating tapes for disaster recovery

[Bob Slater]

I'm new to HPUX and I'm wondering how to go about creating tape backups for both the operating system and applications that can be brought to a backup site in case of disaster to bring our systems back up. What commands and procedures do i need to follow to insure I can recover my systems and data?

[Torsten.]

A "must have" is ignite to create bootable tapes for OS restore. You can backup your data using fbackup or a special backup software.

[Christian Tremblay]

The product you need is Ignite-UX,

It's available for free download at:

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90959/index.html

[Darrel Louis]

Bob,

You can read the Ignite manual, on how to recover your OS.
http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11i.html#Ignite-UX
Command used with ignite: make_tape_recovery.

For your application it depends on which Backup software you're using.

Darrel

[rariasn]

Hi Bob,

For system recovery, I use "ignite" and for application Data Protector (view chapter #10, Disaster Recovery, Admin manual)

rgs,

ran

[Alzhy]

Bob,

If you're relatively new to HP-UX, I suggest you use SAM - the System amdinistration Manager. It is available both as TUI (text/terminal based) as well as GUI.

You launch SAM TUI from a telnet terminal connection by typing "sam" as root. To enable a GUI session, you must have an X-Environment running (i.e. DISPLAY environment defined) -- and same thing .. "sam".

From SAM, you should be able to perform most system admin commands including backups of your data. For the OS though, you need to use Ignite via the tool make_tape_recovery.

Read the man pages of male_tape_recovery.

[spex]

Bob,

This is such a complex topic that books are written on it. Moreover, many commands and procedures are site-specific, so it's difficult to make recommendations for your situation without much more detailed information. Some commands/products to investigate:

* cp
* tar
* cpio
* dd
* fbackup
* Ignite-UX
* RMAN (if you're running Oracle)
* Vertias NetBackup

For more info on commercial backup software, visit:

http://www.backupcentral.com/software-backup.html

I would strongly suggest picking up a book on the subject.

PCS

[DCE]

Bob,

You should have two tapes ata minimum

The first is a weekly Ignite backup of vg00

The second is a backup of therest of the system using the backup software purchased by your company. If none has been purchased, then the fbackup utility provided with HP-UX works quite well. will need to decide if you want to do full backups every day, or fulls once a week, with incremental back ups between (this requires more tapes)

The man page on fbackup is good, and SAM can also be used to configure it.

Always keep at least a couple revisions back on your tapes in case one goes bad.

[Bob Slater]

Thanks to all for your quick response. It looks like I have some reading ahead of me but atleast I'm headed in the right direction.

[Bob Slater]

Thanks to all for your quick response. It looks like I have some reading ahead of me but at least I'm headed in the right direction.

[Joseph C. Denman]

Bob,

The answer is, it really depends on your situation and work environment...ie 24/7? There numerous ways to backup the system, however, ignite is the jewel. It will create a bootable recovery tape. On our systems that are not 24/7, I create a nightly ignite tape.

Read up on it....

...jcd...