It's a combination of Pro Isam/Oracle databases and our ERP application and
a few other apps...however, I don't need to backup the Oracle databases
themselves as there are cold backups being done every night and I can backup
those. Am I reading correctly that with 'tar', if you wanted to exclude
directories you have to create a file and within that file list them out?
I'm currently doing something similar dumping CSV files to a windows share
so that wouldn't be an issue. What I wonder is how the performance would be
doing it that way. Would it be better performance to tar on the box and then
copy it to the windows share? I may have missed reading it, but is there a
way to produce a text file listing of all the files that were sucessfully
tarred?



On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]>wrote:

> So, what are you backing up on the AIX box? And what are you wanting to do?
> Tar to a windows shared folder which is then backed up by your BackupExec
> infrastructure could work.  Don't know if that's sufficient for your needs,
> though.
>
>   On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Cameron <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> *sigh*....apologies all...it was a LONG day....let me try this again.
>>
>> Good morning all,
>>
>> Backup Exec 2010 no longer supports any version of AIX.....soooo....I need
>> to find an alternative.
>> IBM P520 - 2 LPARs - 1 - AIX 5.3, 2 - AIX 6.1
>> Need to backup approx 80GB (roughly 40GB per LPAR)
>>
>> I was using BE2010 to backup (to tape) my Windows boxes as well as the
>> Unix clients but I don't *have* to stick with this. I have a spare server
>> (Windows) that has a tape library attached that I could use (gigbit backbone
>> for the whole network).
>> As to reporting/management functions...pretty basic. Email of completion
>> status, ease of use for backup/restore. I'm really not a Unix person, but
>> can usually muddle my way through any scripting.
>> I'm more than willing to research what's out there, but would like to know
>> if there are any fan favourites so that I don't reinvent the wheel.
>>
>> As always TIA
>> Cameron
>>
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