question to backup AIX

[day88]

Hi guys,

Which are the directories which the backup can excluded?
can i exclude /proc??? what about others??

thanks

day88

 

[alexhu]

for the rootvg you need to use mksysb - that will backup everthing you need

Alex

 

[alexhu]

and everthing else is your decision only

Alex

PS not sure about /proc - don't have an AIX 5 system

 

[day88]

i'm using veritas Netbackup. Not going to use mksysb to backup rootvg

 

[alexhu]

Can you do a disaster recovery restore with that ?

Alex

 

[mrn]

I would do a mksysb at least once a month or sooner if you patch your system on a regular basis. If you can afford the time backup / and below, but create an exclude list for /tmp & /proc. But like Alex said is down to personal preference.

Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

 

[hfaix]

For what it's worth, my disaster recover plan (which we executed three weeks ago) includes both mksysb rebuilds and backups to TSM.

As for /proc, I guess you could send this to backup with mksysb ( I do ), but now that I think about it, I don't know how it would work. After all, it's just process info that gets lost each time you shutdown.

 

[day88]

For DR, need to install the OS and then restore back the data, not straight forward like mksysb