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

3 Managing Systems
This chapter describes routine tasks when managing a single-user or multiuser system.
The following main tasks are described:
• “Managing Disks - Quick Reference Examples” (page 93)
• “Managing Large Files” (page 114)
• “Managing FTP” (page 117)
• “Backing Up Data” (page 120)
• “Restoring Your Data” (page 137)
• “Backing Up and Recovering Directories: Quick Reference for tar” (page 140)
• “How To:” (page 141)
— “Determining What Version of the HP-UX Operating System is Running”
(page 141)
— “Checking the System’s Run Level” (page 141)
— “Scheduling a cron Job” (page 142)
— “Adding Users to a Workgroup” (page 142)
— “Managing Groups of Distributed Systems or Serviceguard Clusters” (page 152)
— “Exporting a File System (HP-UX to HP-UX)” (page 147)
— “Moving Resources” (page 148)
— “Popping the Directory Stack” (page 149)
— “Continuing to Work During a Scheduled Downtime” (page 149)
— “Diagramming a System’s Disk Usage” (page 150)
— “Finding Large Files” (page 151)
— “Examining File System Characteristics” (page 151)
• “Adding Peripherals ” (page 152)
Managing Disks - Quick Reference Examples
NOTE: All of the procedures that follow require you to be the root user on the system
you are modifying.
• “Adding a Disk to a Volume Group” (page 94)
• “Adding a Logical Volume” (page 95)
• “Adding a Logical Volume with Mirroring” (page 96)
• “Extending a Logical Volume” (page 97)
• “Extending a Logical Volume When You Can’t Use HP SMH” (page 98)
• “Reducing a Logical Volume” (page 101)
• “Removing a Logical Volume” (page 106)
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