Hello, For a best *uv*backup with on-line system, use "uvbackup", it perform a file by file, record by record dump ; not a blind binary copy.
Here is a little shell script which create one "uvdb file" for one account. When done, you can copy the uvbfile "out of system". My two pence. Manu more uvbackup-account #!/bin/sh # UV Backup of one account # Syntax : uvbackup-account <accountName> # UVDB is the path to the "root" of uvdatabase # UVBACKUP is the path to the repository of uvb files if [ $1 ] then find $UVDB/$1 -print | uvbackup -f -v -s $UVBACKUP/$1.log -limit 1 -cachedetail - > $UVBACKUP/$1.uvb echo ----------------------------------- echo `date` echo $1.uvb is available on $UVBACKUP else echo Syntaxe : uvbackup-account accountname fi > -----Message d'origine----- > De : u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- > boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] De la part de david yu > Envoyé : vendredi 11 mars 2011 23:54 > À : u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Objet : [U2] backing up system > > hello, > > We are using HP-UX 11.23 and I have a question in regards to backing up > system by account, In the root directory we have 6 accounts, DBCAlive, > DBCAtest, DBAZlive, DBAZtest, DBUPGCA, DBUPGAZ. When we do our > nightly backup, we backup all the accounts by using cpio but sometimes we > just want to backup 2 accounts at the same time, anyone knows how this is > done? > > here is the command that we use to backup: > > mt -t /dev/rmt/1mb rewind > cd / > find . -print|cpio -ovcB>/dev/rmt/1mb > > Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. > > thanks! > > > > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users