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From: pearmana@prl.philips.co.uk (Andy Pearman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: HP-UX and backups
Keywords: backups
Message-ID: <1025@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>
Date: 2 Jan 90 16:43:21 GMT
Organization: Philips Research Laboratories, Redhill, UK
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Hi,

Can anyone please give me some advice.

I have an HP9000-350 running HP-UX 6.21

I recently added a 2nd disk and moved all /users onto it leaving
the original disk just for system stuff.

I have been using HPs /etc/backup to do full and incremental dumps
which has been fine up to now.  This dumps the whole fileystem,
not partitions.

However, it occurs to me that if I lost my system disk, it would be
difficult to restore the system without restoring /users (which is
mounted from 2nd disk and probably alright).

I was thinking of using dump/restore instead or maybe fbackup (which
is similar to dump) and dump them as separate partitions, but I'm not
sure if dump/restore is part of the "RECOVERY" tape that I built for when
things go wrong.

If its not then I won't be able to restore any files if I lost my 
system disk.

p.s.  I did not really want to unmount /users prior to starting the 
backup.

    Thanks if you can shed some light on the subject,

              Andy.


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Andy Pearman, Computer Dept, Philips Research Labs, Redhill, Surrey, England. 
              pearmana@prl.philips.co.uk