Fbackup question

[Peter Day_3]

Guys,
Is there a way of putting more than one fbackup onto the same tape.

I need to split the backup, and may need to split the backup down to mounted filesystem.

I know you can do this with dump, but this doesn't work with VxFS filesystems.

Any comments would be very welcome.
Pete

[Sanjay Kumar Suri · Accepted solution]

fbackup/frecover does not support multiple backups on a single tape.

vxdump/vxrestore can be used for VxFS FS.

sks

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

You cannot put more than one fbackup backup on a tape. Check out the link below.

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000064722384

The itrc doc id is KBAN00000916

Check out the section "The Format:"

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Sundar_7]

Hi Pete,

fbackup always rewinds the media before reading/writing - so there is no way you can have more than one fbackup on to the same tape.

If you ever managed to find a way, let us know :-)

Sundar.

[SureshKumar_2]

Hi Pete

I agree with sanjay, and sundar, since tape is rewinded after backup.

But u can do in another way, by doing this method u will get not get the some feature of fbackup
*)fast search & resync.

Method :
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*) take backup, by specifing stdout, (-f -)
and pipe to non-windable by dd.
Ex: /etc/fbackup i /home -f - | dd of=/dev/rmt/0mn bs=10K

mention dat no rewind file.

Hope this meet ur requirment.

suresh