HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Overview

You can backup your data to tapes, optical
media, or disk archive files on alternate
•
devices. Some utilities that will allow you
to do this include:
— HP OpenView Storage Data Protector
Software, part of the HP OpenView Suite
of products, automates high performance
backup and recovery, from disk or tape,
over unlimited distances, to ensure 24x7
business continuity and maximize IT
resource utilization. For complete details
on the HP OpenView Suite, see http://
openview.hp.com.
— The pax command extracts, writes, and
lists archive files and copies files and
directory hierarchies. A more
contemporary utility, pax performs
basically the same functions as the older
(still available) utilities cpio and tar.
For details about pax, see pax(1).
— tar (called the “tape archiver”) is
equally adept at writing to disk archive
files or optical media as it is at writing to
magnetic tape media. For details about
tar, see tar(1).
— cpio (copy in/out)
— vxdump copies to magnetic tape all files
in a VxFS file system that have been
changed after a certain date. See
vxdump(1M)
• You can copy important files to another
system using ftp, rcp, or (for secure copies)
sftp.
• To protect the copies from being destroyed
if physical damage or theft occurs at the site
of the primary data, be sure to keep at least
one copy of critical data at an alternate
location. Don’t forget to physically protect
tapes that contain unencrypted data. HP
Openview Security Data Protector can
encrypt backups.
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