server backup on tape drive

[Prabhu Hosmani]

Hi All,

I want to take the full backup of rp4440 server on external tape drive, but its ISCSI port is not working.
Can i take the backup of this server through mouting the tape drive from any other server?
If it is possible please let me know how to take the full backup

[Sajjad Sahir]

Two things

first u have to take ignite backup for the disaster recovery
root volume group
and other file systems belongs to other than this volume group u can use any backup tool

Sajjad

[Deepak Kr]

Prabhu,

One other solution is to use ignite net backup to take a full data backup on another system.

Refer to:

/opt/ignite/bin/make_net_recovery

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

1) Make sure there is no scsi id conflict.
2) Make sure the stape driver is compiled into the kernel.
3) Make sure the tape drive is supported as a HP-UX boot device.

Understand that a full backup strategy involves two things:

1) make_tape_recovery ignite backup. This gives you a bootable backup and should be done for vg00 the boot folume.
2) Another backup, using fbackup or any number of third party tools to back up your important data.

SEP

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

1) Make sure there is no scsi id conflict.
2) Make sure the stape driver is compiled into the kernel.
3) Make sure the tape drive is supported as a HP-UX boot device.

Understand that a full backup strategy involves two things:

1) make_tape_recovery ignite backup. This gives you a bootable backup and should be done for vg00 the boot folume.
2) Another backup, using fbackup or any number of third party tools to back up your important data.

Problem: HP-UX can not write to tape drives on remote servers. This feature is not built into the operating system. You an replace item 1 above with a make_net_recovery to an NFS mount point accessible to the server with the tape drive and get your backup to tape via a two step process.

SEP

[Tim Hempstead]

As Steven has said if you have no local tape device then you could do a make_net_recovery to make a bootable backup of the OS to an Ignite server.

For a data backup you can use fbackup to write to a tape deck on another system by specifying the device to be written too as machine:device (see the -f section of the fbackup man page for more information).

[Torsten.]

What does it mean - SCSI port not working?

Depending on the internal configuration you can either use 1 or none of the built-in SCSI ports for external devices.

For a SCSI tape you probably need an additional SCSI hba - do you have one?