GREATTTTT Stef, Yes, this backup will be used in disaster recovery. That means i should not go for image backup, but just incremental every would do fine. !!!
Sandra Stef Coene wrote: > On Tuesday 26 October 2004 19:37, Sandra wrote: > > Dear Mark, > > I am confused again. > Me too :) > > > See, I need to take backup (image or incremental) of entire system. > > IMAGETYPE is one things, and running fsck later on after restore is > > another. > Why? What do you want to do? Do a disaster recovery? Then you never need > images, only incremental backups. > > > Now question is, BMR is actually something, that will backup and then > > restore the entire system in one go. Image is the solution for this > > probably. > > > > Now, If i take Image backup and my machine crashes, all i need to do is to > > install my OS and BA client, and start the restore of the image of all the > > file systems (including system file system). This way when i am going to > > restart after this, i will be on the same level as the image was, onlly > > thing that i would do is to run fsck if there is any problem. > My DR scenario: > - AIX: mksysb rules :)). Mksysb is a bootable tape (or cd, dvd, or network) > that restores a single AIX server in 1 go. I did a test restore of a cluster > node with TSM and domino and after 45 min the minutes was up and running !!! > I started HACMP and TSM and domino were up and running without any problems. > Use mksysb on a local tape for the TSM server (+ TSM db backup to disk ona > filesystem in rootvg) and nim (network mksysb) for the AIX clients. > > - Windows: CBMR is cool. I used CBMR to restore a TSM server and it woked > flawless. This was on a local, single, dedicated lto tape. CBMR is also > network aware so you can backup over the network directly to a TSM server. > If you don't use CBMR, you have to do it manually as described in the docs. > Or ASR, available in 2003 and XP. With ASR, you can boot from a CD (windows + > TSM client) and recover everything directly from the TSM server. > > - Linux: I never tried it, but there are a lot of tricks you can use. I > should install a basic linux in a partition, recreate the original partition, > mounts them and restore everything. You can boot from cd or change the > bootloader to load the fresh restored linux. > I know Cristie was working on a linux version of the CBMR software, but I > don't know if it's finished. > > > IMPORTANT: when i will initiate the image backup, the only thing that would > > be running would be those OS files and no application other than that. If > > there is some system file that is open in for exampple in /usr, and there > > is no application that is using that file, then it will be backed up?? Am i > > right? > Yes, with *unix you can backup any file you want, even open files. But the > backup may be inconsistent. It also depends if the file is open read-only of > read-write and if it's changed or not. Also, TSM will try by default 3 times > to backup a changed file. > So, unless you have a database running, only log files are changed. And you > don't care about log files, they will not prevent you from doing a disaster > restore. > > > I m using Linux................... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > Good choice :) > > Stef > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" > http://www.docum.org/
