Using Solaris disk on HP-UX

[Jeffrey L. Huff]

Currently we seperate our HP and Solaris devices on an EMC frame, and have had no reason for full time availabiliy for the Solaris applications. That is about to change.
We currently use BCV structures to create backups of HP disks, then mount them to a seperate backup server. Is it possible to mount the Solaris disks to the HP frame and use DataProtector to back-up the data? If it's possible, I assume I would need to use VxVM? What about if the disk is a metaset instead of a metadevice?

Thanks in advance.

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

That would not be possible. You have two options, use Data Protector to backup the data as RAW device, or buy a "platform independent file sytem" like "veritas storage foundation".

[Jeffrey L. Huff]

Ivan,

Thanks for your prompt reply. I was just curious if it could be done. The raw option may be the "easiest" solution.

[BUPA IS]

Hello Jeffrey,
If you have the room in the array you can get EMC to set up Solaris bcvs and then install the Solaris data protector agent. The tape media can be driven by either Solaris or HP . You can then use data protector to complete the backups after the split and remount has occured on a Solaris system .
If we need to share data between Solaris and HP-UX we tend ot use NFS.

Mike

[Jeffrey L. Huff]

Mike,

Your option is one we are thinking about, but we currently have a dedicated BU server for the BCV copies, which is all HP. And it has most of our tape drives attached. We were just exploring he "local attach" avenue first for getting the backups accomplished.

[TwoProc]

Just a suggestion for a backup server that could possibly do this for you: Linux supports many file types. This works for locally attached drives, and may work for SAN as well.

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