Hello,

I'm trying to backup a server to the remote device through 'backup'
command.  I know that mksysb and savevg won't do the job because they
don't support backing up data to the remote host.  My question....does
'backup' command save all logical volume info?

Thank you!
Asya

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Sorry, AIX server

On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:33:02 +0000, Asya wrote:
quote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to backup a server to the remote device through 'backup'
> command.  I know that mksysb and savevg won't do the job because they
> don't support backing up data to the remote host.  My question....does
> 'backup' command save all logical volume info?
>
> Thank you!
> Asya

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Asya <lisansa@smarts.com> wrote:
quote:

> Hello,

quote:

> I'm trying to backup a server to the remote device through 'backup'
> command.  I know that mksysb and savevg won't do the job because they
> don't support backing up data to the remote host.  My question....does
> 'backup' command save all logical volume info?


Are you talking about any partivular OS ? 'backup' is no part
of "generic unix" ....
quote:

> Thank you!
> Asya


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Hi,

Yes, it's regarding AIX...i did say that in my follow up.

Thanks
Asya

On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 08:23:53 +0000, ph wrote:
[QUOTE]
> Asya <lisansa@smarts.com> wrote: 
> 
>
> Are you talking about any partivular OS ? 'backup' is no part
> of "generic unix" ....
> 

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Asya wrote:
quote:

>
> I'm trying to backup a server to the remote device through 'backup'
> command.  I know that mksysb and savevg won't do the job because they
> don't support backing up data to the remote host.  My question....does
> 'backup' command save all logical volume info?
>
> Sorry, AIX server


RTFM.  The man page for "backup" on AIX does not discuss LVM.  It
discusses files and filesystems.  Unix is layered, know your layers.
LVM is a layer in from filesystems, so LVM data is not stored in the
filesystems that reside in those logical volumes.

On AIX the configuration of logical volumes is stored in the private
area of the disks in the volume group.  You'll want to read up on
volume groups to see how to dump the VG config to a file.

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On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 09:24:27 -0500, "Asya" <lisansa@smarts.com> wrote:
[QUOTE]
>Hi,
>
>Yes, it's regarding AIX...i did say that in my follow up.
>
>Thanks
>Asya
>
>On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 08:23:53 +0000, ph wrote:
> 

Asya

You can use mksysb and/or savegv to backup to a flat file which can be
moved to a remote system.  This is how mksysb's are created for
network recovery using NIM.

You can also do a savevg and specify a wildcard exclude of * , this
will create a small (few K) file of all you VG & LV info for very easy
recovery.  You can then use whatever you want to back it up.

Another option is to use a backup system designed for the job, I hear
good things about storix, not used it myself yet but it's supposed to
be very good, and reasonably priced.

Thanks

Steven

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