Backup to a Tape Drive on a Different Local Virtual Partition

   

HP-UX Virtual Partitions
By Marty Poniatowski

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Chapter 7.  Backup


The tape drive in the preceding section was connected to cable1 and used to backup cable1. Let'snow backup cable2 with the tape drive as part of the cable1 Virtual Partition. Keep in mind that vPar cable2 with its hostname cvhdcon4 is a separate system from cable1 and its hostname cvhdcon3. We will, therefore, have to backup vPar cable2 to a remote tape drive on cable1.

We will backup to a remote tape, connected to cable1, with fbackup by specifying the system name and tape drive, or file, to which we want to store the files. The following example uses fbackup options covered later in this chapter in the non-vPar-specific part of the chapter. We are connected to cable2 and specify that it is to be backed up to the tape drive on cable1 (hostname cvhdcon3.) The fbackup command below will perform the backup to the remote tape drive:

 # fbackup -f cvhdcon3:/dev/rmt/0m -i /var/tmp -v  fbackup(1004): session begins on Wed Aug 29 16:09:28 2001  fbackup(3307): volume 1 has been used 6 time(s) (maximum: 100)  fbackup(3024): writing  volume 1 to the output file cvhdcon3:/dev/rmt/0m      1: /      2: /tmp      3: /tmp/.AgentSockets      4: /tmp/.AgentSockets/A      5: /tmp/X11_newfonts.log      6: /tmp/install.vars      7: /tmp/llbdbase.dat      8: /tmp/lost+found      9: /tmp/portmap.file     10: /tmp/rpcbind.file     11: /tmp/sd_ipd_acl.1417     12: /tmp/services     13: /tmp/swlist     14: /tmp/typescript  fbackup(1005): run time: 17 seconds  fbackup(3055): total file blocks read for backup: 141  fbackup(3056): total blocks written to output file  cvhdcon3:/dev/rmt/0m: 0  # 

It takes a little getting used to running fbackup to a remote device even when the device is physically connected to the computer on which you're working. Since the two vPars are different hosts, however, it makes sense that a tape drive used by a different vPar would indeed be remote.

The fbackup runs over the network from cable2 to cable1. This is one of the many reasons that you want to have a network card for every vPar on your system.

We would issue other remote backup commands as well. The following example shows running cpio on cable2 to the tape drive on cable1 (hostname cvhdcon3:)

 # find . -print | cpio -oBv | (remsh cvhdcon3 dd of=/dev/rmt/0m)  .  lost+found  .AgentSockets  Socket <.AgentSockets/A> not backed up  typescript  install.vars  swlist  X11_newfonts.log  sd_ipd_acl.1417  services  rpcbind.file  portmap.file  llbdbase.dat  140 blocks  140+0 records in  140+0 records out  # 

This command performs the backup of /tmp on vPar cable2 by sending the files to the tape drive on system cvhdcon3 (vPar cable1.)


       
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    HP-UX Virtual Partitions
    HP-UX Virtual Partitions
    ISBN: 0130352128
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2002
    Pages: 181

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