Backup

From: Tis Unix (unixdocs72@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 18 2004 - 07:20:45 EST

• Next message: Malhotra, Dave: "loss of ethernet link"
• Previous message: watson: "Summary: The network interface of sun Fire V440 can't work correctly"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]

Hi all,
 
A few things to ask before I start using this script to backup a server -
 
I have read that backing up a mounted filesystem can give you a corrupted backup. With our production server, we have mirroring so I plan to detach the submirror, backup the detached disk, then reattch it. Will this work in the script ? -
 
metadetach d0 d8 >> $LOG_FILE 2>&1
ufsdump 0uf $DEVICE /dev/rdsk/c0t8d0s0 >> $LOG_FILE 2>&1
metattach d0 d8 >> $LOG_FILE 2>&1
 
Will this work ??
The other servers aren't mirrores ... What's generally used as best practice to ufsdump these servers that I can't umount the filesystems ?
 
Also I have a question about the backup going over to 2 tapes - I know for sure that the backup will take 2 tapes (I am backing up to DDS4 tape drive) and I wanna know if running the script from a cron job, how will it prompt me to load the second tape ? Will I need to run it interactively ? Even if I run it interactively, will it ask me to load a second tape ?
 
Thanks in advance
Tis

                
---------------------------------
  Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now
_______________________________________________
sunmanagers mailing list
sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers

• Next message: Malhotra, Dave: "loss of ethernet link"
• Previous message: watson: "Summary: The network interface of sun Fire V440 can't work correctly"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Wed Apr 09 2008 - 23:28:18 EDT