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Interoperability Issues, Summary

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Backups The first dd puts a boot area on the tape, making it a bootable image. Once the boot image is on tape, the tape is not rewound. The next dd appends an image of the SCSI disk to the tape at address 6. Be sure to use the appropriate disk device file. Once created, the tape can be used to completely restore the disk using the following steps: 1. Insert the tape into the DDS tape drive. 2. Go into the Boot Administration utility and boot to ISL from the tape. If your tape drive is at target 3, then your command would look like: BOOT_ADMIN> b scsi.3.0 isl 3. Enter the following in response to the ISL prompt in order to restore to the internal drive at target 6: ISL> hpux restore disc(scsi.6;0) This command restores the disk image from the tape to the actual disk at scsi.6, destroying any existing data on the disk. There is a 2GB limit on the amount of data that can be restored. The tape and disk must be on the boot device interface. Interoperability Issues Standard UNIX Utilities The following standard UNIX utilities are supported by both IRIX and HP-UX and perform similarly: dump, rdump, tar, cpio, dd, and pax. They both use the standard tape utility mt. The following table summarizes the backup commands for both operating systems. Backup Utilities Comparison COMMAND backup restore fbackup frecover xfsdump xfsrestore dump rdump rrestore tar cpio dd pax tcio IRIX yes yes no no yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes no HP-UX yes yes yes yes no no yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes Summary IRIX and HP-UX support a wide variety of backup utilities, ranging from the proprietary to the universal. IRIX's proprietary commands, xfsdump and xfsrestore, support backups on XFS filesystems. HP-UX's proprietary backup utilities, fbackup and frecover, are more versatile than backup and restore, particularly in the area of graph files and network backups. To improve performance while writing to a cartridge tape, HP-UX utilizes the tcio command. 40

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Backups
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The first
dd
puts a boot area on the tape, making it a bootable image. Once the boot image is on tape, the
tape is not rewound. The next
dd
appends an image of the SCSI disk to the tape at address
6
. Be sure to use
the appropriate disk device file.
Once created, the tape can be used to completely restore the disk using the following steps:
1.
Insert the tape into the DDS tape drive.
2.
Go into the Boot Administration utility and boot to ISL from the tape. If your tape drive is at target
3
,
then your command would look like:
BOOT_ADMIN> b scsi.3.0 isl
3.
Enter the following in response to the ISL prompt in order to restore to the internal drive at target
6
:
ISL> hpux restore disc(scsi.6;0)
This command restores the disk image from the tape to the actual disk at
scsi.6
, destroying any existing
data on the disk. There is a 2GB limit on the amount of data that can be restored. The tape and disk must be
on the boot device interface.
Interoperability Issues
Standard UNIX Utilities
The following standard UNIX utilities are supported by both IRIX and HP-UX and perform similarly:
dump
,
rdump
,
tar
,
cpio
,
dd
, and
pax
.
They both use the standard tape utility
mt
.
The following table
summarizes the backup commands for both operating systems.
Backup Utilities Comparison
C
OMMAND
IRIX
HP-UX
backup
yes
yes
restore
yes
yes
fbackup
no
yes
frecover
no
yes
xfsdump
yes
no
xfsrestore
yes
no
dump
yes
yes
rdump
yes
yes
rrestore
yes
yes
tar
yes
yes
cpio
yes
yes
dd
yes
yes
pax
yes
yes
tcio
no
yes
Summary
IRIX and HP-UX support a wide variety of backup utilities, ranging from the proprietary to the universal.
IRIX±s proprietary commands,
xfsdump
and
xfsrestore,
support backups on XFS filesystems.
HP-UX±s proprietary backup utilities,
fbackup
and
frecover
, are more versatile than
backup
and
restore
,
particularly in the area of graph files and network backups. To improve performance while writing to a
cartridge tape, HP-UX utilizes the
tcio
command.