fbackup .. make recovery .. over network ..

[someone_4]

Hey everyone ..
I am trying to implement some kind of backups.Right now we have none ! .. I have 2 external dds 3 ttape drives hooked up to an N class. I have been reading about fbackup and make recovery. I woudl like to start by backing up 5 servers on a weekly basis though theese tape drives.But it seems that I have to do some kind of NFS mounting to get this to work. Is there an easier way to back up over a network? And is NFS mounts a good or bad thing?

By the way on a side note I thought this was pretty funny

echo Mhbqnrnes Stbjr | tr [a-y] [b-z]

Richard

[harry d brown jr]

fbackup can do remote backups where device is server:device

and you can do make_recoverys over the network also.

Please don't do NFS mounts, it'll kill ya!


BTW I love that "tr"

live free or die
harry

[someone_4]

Thats what I was thinking about NFS mounts ..
But all the steps I have talk about NFS ..

Richard

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Richard:

With regard to 'fbackup' you can use the '-f machine:device' format to specify remote backups. There is no need to invoke NFS mounts.

With regard to Ignite recovery tapes, have a look at 'make_net_recovery'. You cannot use 'make_tape_recovery' with remote tapes. Since you already have Ignite loaded on your server [ ;-) ] see here:

# /opt/ignite/share/doc/makenetrec.txt

Regards!

...JRF...

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Richard,

Take a look at these threads,

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=97b3fec205c1b96e21/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000006434226

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=97b3fec205c1b96e21/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000048403550

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=77606157151086a741/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000055821055

Hope this helps.

Regds

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Richard:

fbackup can run over the network. You actually run it on the local machine but you can use the device on a remote machine. This only works in the HP world. If you have any other kind of UNIX boxes then you will need to use NFS. Your will need to set up an Ignite Server and set up net recovery images. Of course, this Ignite Server must be backed up so that the Images are not lost. You really should look into a solution like OmniBack.

[Volker Borowski]

Richard,

to get fbackup working over the network, you need to set up a remote shell.

With only HP-UX in place this is suitable.

If you have mixed OS, I would also avoid NFS and go with tar

tar - cf - . | rsh host_with_tape -l user dd of=/dev/rmt/0mn bs=5120

Using the No Rewind device, you will be able to append more than one tar-set to the same tape.

Hope this helps
Volker

Ups, restore it with

rsh host_with_tape -l user dd if=/dev/rmt/0mn bs=5120 | tar -xvf -

[someone_4]

Hey Harry .. I tried to give you 8 points but I hit the wrong thing .. I am still trying to figure this out.

[harry d brown jr]

Ruchard,

Points don't mean much, providing you take the right path! I'd rather someone make the right decisions than worry too much about how many points to assign, especially since you are good about doing such anyways!

live free or die
harry