NFS Backup

[mgrun]

Hello

I have a unix station that is connected to a file server (netapp) via NFS. I need to backup this file system from the unix station. Does anybody have any suggestions what the best way is to do this using unix commands.


With Thanks
Micha Micha Grunberg
Unix Sys-Admin

 

[bpinos]

You can look at ufsdump to maybe accomplish what you need. Tar may also be a simple solution as well.

 

[Annihilannic]

What are you backing up to?

You won't be able to use ufsdump on an NFS filesystem.

Perhaps something along the lines of:

[tt]tar cvf - /netapp_mountpoint | gzip -c > /somewhere/netapp_backup.tar.gz[/tt] Annihilannic.