HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Routine Management Tasks HP-UX 11i v3 (B3921-90023, September 2010)

Choosing an HP-UX Backup/Recovery Utility......................................................123
Determining What Data to Back Up............................................................................125
Defining What Files and Directories to Back Up...................................................125
Determining How Often to Back Up Data..................................................................126
Full Backups vs. Incremental Backups...................................................................126
Backup Levels.........................................................................................................127
Example of Setting Backup Levels.........................................................................128
Backing Up Your Data Using the fbackup Command...........................................129
General Procedure for Using the fbackup Command...........................................129
Creating the Index File on the Local Device..........................................................130
Backing Up NFS Mounted Files with fbackup......................................................130
Examples of fbackup Commands................................................................................130
Example: Backing Up to a DDS (DAT) Tape..........................................................130
Example: Backup Up to a DLT Tape......................................................................130
Example: Incremental Backup to a DLT Tape........................................................131
Example: Backing Up to Two Devices...................................................................131
Backing Up Files on a Remote System........................................................................132
Remote Backup Using fbackup..............................................................................132
Remote Backup Using cpio....................................................................................132
Remote Backup Using tar.......................................................................................132
Setting Up an Automated Backup Schedule...............................................................132
Creating an Automated Backup Schedule..................................................................133
Displaying an Automated Backup Schedule...............................................................134
Activating an Automated Backup Schedule...............................................................134
Backing Up If You Are Using LVM.............................................................................134
Backing Up Large Files................................................................................................135
Backup Utilities that Support Large Files..............................................................135
Backup Utilities that Do Not (fully) Support Large Files......................................135
Restoring Large Files..............................................................................................135
Backing Up a VxFS Snapshot File System...................................................................136
How to Create and Back Up a VxFS Snapshot File System ..................................136
Restoring Your Data..........................................................................................................137
Determining What Data to Restore.............................................................................137
Before Restoring Your Data ........................................................................................138
Restoring Your Data Using HP SMH..........................................................................138
Restoring Your Data Using HP-UX Commands ........................................................138
Restoring Files that are NFS Mounted...................................................................138
Restoring Large Files .............................................................................................138
Examples of Restoring Data...................................................................................139
Examples of Restoring Data Remotely...................................................................139
Recovering From a System Crash ...............................................................................140
Backing Up and Recovering Directories: Quick Reference for tar...................................140
How To:.............................................................................................................................141
Determining What Version of the HP-UX Operating System is Running..................141
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