Does anyone use Lone-Tar

[moetech]

Hello,

Aix newbie here. We use Lone-Tar to backup our aix server. It backs up to a local tape drive. That works fine. I am implamenting a disater recovery plan that will backup data to a remote Snap Server NAS.

I need to keep the 1st backup job to the tape drive in place. Is it possible to add a 2nd job to backup to my NAS. I know I have to backup to a file on the NAS and I have to mount the snap Nas on the Aix box. This I can do. I don't know how to make Lone-Tar do this.

Does anyone have any backup software sugesstions that will do this easily.

Thank you for your time.

 

[KenCunningham]

I know Tony Lawrence likes Lone Tar. You could try contacting him in the SCO unix Tek-Tips forum : Forum58

 

[DSMARWAY]

hi ,

for DR purpose you should firstly create a system i.e. root
image , called mksysb

( smit mksysb )
if you don;t know already this is a bootable image and can recover the root OS if it gets corrupt

secondly if you want to backup your data , you can do this also , i.e. you can use the backup command to backup the filesystems to tape use no rewind device e.g. if tape drive is rmt0 use rmt0.1 , so you backup filesystemA B C ...
on tape it will have FilesystemA on position1 , B on 2 and so on
and if you want to restore from filesyetmB you would from beginning of the tape forward 2 positions i.e. mt -t /dev/rmt0.1 fsf 2

and use restore -ivf /dev/rmt0.1 ( i for interactive)

I don't know what you mean by NAS , but if this is mounted
on your AIX server , you would just backup this up as normal filesystem / mountpoint

HTH