frecover in other system

[Jimmy_13]

can i recover with my data in a Server2 if i use fbackup in Server1?
The two server have the same hp-ux 11i.

[Patrick Wallek]

Yes!!! ABSOLUTELY!!!! fbackup tapes are most definitely portable between systems. Just make sure you have the appropriate space to restore whatever it is you want to restore. Just use 'frecover' on your other HP-UX system to restore the data.

[Fragon · Accepted solution]

Hi,
Of course you can,if the O/S are both the HP-UX! If the directory structure is not completely the same, you can use "-X" option to recover the data to a temp directory then use "cp -p" to the actual directory.
With "-N" option you can only make a view of the file lists in the fbackup tape!
#man frecover
can give you a detail help!

-ux

[twang]

I have experience of cloning vg00 from a A-class 400 to another A-class 400 using ignite tape, and then simply change hostname and ip_address. It works well.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

THe answer is, of course, yes but let's be a little careful. Frecover is not intended to used as a means of transferring an OS or cloning a system; that's the job of Ignite. As long as you are trying to transfer data fbackup will work like tar, cpio, ... only better and faster. Fbackup/frecover does not even require that the OS versions be the same.

[Steven E. Protter]

The right tool for the right job.

For normal files, fbackups will work system to system. For database files, only if the database was cold when the backup was taken.

For system or OS cloning, the tool to use is Ignite.

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