Fbackup archive format

[Alessandro Pilati]

Hi to all,
I would be happy to know the format of the backups created by fbackup, and if this kind of archive is compatible with other platform different from HP-UX.

Thank you in advance,
Alex

[DCE]

Alex,

It has been my experience that fbackup works only on HPUX. I do believe it is propietary

[Jeff Schussele · Accepted solution]

Hi Alex,

fbackup uses a combination of dump & ftio & no it's only compatible with HP-UX systems.
Use tar, pax or cpio for compatability with other UNIX systems.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Patrick Wallek]

fbackups are in fbackup format.

No it is not compatible with anything other than the HP-UX frecover tool.

[Raj D.]

Hi Alessandro ,

To take a fbackup with 0 level , execute :

# fbackup -0i /usr -f /dev/rmt/0m

[ Where /dev/rmt/0m is device file name ,
i for include, e for exclude , 0 is the fbackup level ]

And to restore you have to use frecover.


And it is not compatible with other platform and will work with hp-ux only.

Cheers,
Raj.

[Alessandro Pilati]

Thank you for your quickly responses!

[Alessandro Pilati]

Ok I will use the other tools for a cross-platform backup/recovery actions.

Thank you to all