remote backup

[juno2]

We have a tape drive on the unix system, now we want to remote backup ( by fbackup , tar ) the linux system , cos two system (unix and linux) are in different platform type , is it possible to make such remote backup ? thx

[T G Manikandan · Accepted solution]

I am not sure whether fbackup exists on Linux.

tar is a tool which has multi flavour unix platform support.

Incase of recovery using solaris/hpux/linux you can use tar to restore the files.

you can use fbackup to backup the files but you need to restore the files only from a hpux system.


Thanks

[juno2]

if I run backup ( tar , fbackup ) on the local tape drive to remote backup the remote linux system , is it OK to do it? thx.

[T G Manikandan]

you cannot do a fbackup from the remote system as it is LINUX in your case.

you can use tar like

#remsh linux "tar cvf - /home|remsh hp dd of=/dev/rmt/0m"

The post before this explains to you how to do a backup remotely using tar and fbackup.

This above case will just login into the remote system and again push files.
i.e.the same command executed from local and remote systems.
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x3f8538dfa974d711abdc0090277a778c,00.html

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