Built-In Backup Programs

Most HP-UX system administrators employ a dual backup strategy. The first is to use the make_tape_recovery command of Ignite-UX to create a bootable backup tape of their root volume (make_tape_recovery is covered in Chapter 9). You can create a bootable recovery archive across a network with make_net_recovery. Secondly, a backup program is used to back up the balance of data on the system. In this chapter I'll give an overview of several backup commands. I won't cover any advanced backup programs such as HP's OmniBack. Advanced backup tools, however, can make tasks such as centralized backup and overall management of backup much easier.The last section in this chapter covers backup of Virtual Partitions (vPars) and can ...

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