Remote Tape drive

[Nicky_5]

Hi,

I have 2 HP boxes A and B. Machine A is at oslevel HP-UX 11.11 and Machine B is at level HP-UX 11.00. i want to backup a huge amount of data (90 GB) from Machine A but i dont have any tape drive attached to it but machine B has a tape drive attached to it. Please advice if it is possible in any way to take a backup of the data on A to B's tape drive.

Any other suggestion in taking this backup is very welcome.

I am very new to HP and would appreciate it someone could explain the steps involved

Regards
Nicky

[melvyn burnard · Accepted solution]

two methods spring to mind.
A) NFS mount the data from Node A to Node B, andthen backu on Node B
B) Use fbackup on Node A specifiying the remote tape device on Node B. See man fbackup for mor information

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Nicky,

You can use fbackup to back the data from one host to another. use the hostname:/dev/rmt/xm with the -f option of the fbackup command. Do man fbackup for all the options with the commands.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Nicky_5]

hi,
thanks for the replies, i will try them.

i would also like to know procedure if i want to take a bootable system backup

[A. Clay Stephenson]

That can't be done on a remote tape drive. In that case, you woyu;d have to set up one of your hosts as an Ignite Server and do a make_net_recovery. Make_tape_recovery can be used on hosts with local tape drives. Do a search for Ignite/UX.

[Nicky_5]

Hi,

I just noticed that one of my AIX machines has an IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive attached to it, can this be attached to an HP machine so that i can perform all the above backups?

[Dieu de Belle Fontaine]

Hi,
Except by testing your IBM Tape on the HP machine, I don't see any other satisfied solution ;-)

HP900 work very well with ...HP equipments :o)

B.Regards