safety backup - bc12

[snakeblitsen]

Hi, An md110 which I maintain remotely is shortly going to be upgraded from BC9 to BC12. I have not as yet been trained on BC12. Is it possible to make an external backup remotely with NIU/NIU2.
Cheers

 

[lancbomb]

do you mean that,

the site is remote to where you are and you want to dial in to the remote site and do an external back-up of it ?

if so,
DUBDP;
(use which ever REL is the latest dump)

FISBIIR=RELx;

if not, then pls explain further

cheers

LB

 

[snakeblitsen]

Hi, No, the storage device will be at a central point, I want to access the remote site and download the backup to the central site.
Cheers

 

[snakeblitsen]

Hi again Lancbomb, I was led to believe that BC12 din not have safety disks.
Cheers

 

[singhbrindisi]

Hi,

In BC12 , you have NIU2 with 128MB/256MB ATA Flash on board, Additionally you can have HDU7/1 ( ATA ) hard drive for the backup purposes.....
FISBI can't be used any more on NIU2....

Here is some details:
Safety backup
The old safety backup system is no longer valid. The IODEV’s SAFETY-HDU, SAFETY-FS and the command FISBI cannot be used with the new NIU board.
Copying the REL1 and/or the REL2 directories to an extra slave IDE/ATA HDU now makes a safety backup.
Example:
BLEQI:EQU=1-0-60-0; Blocking of dump channel on the I/O-board.
IOSII:NODE=SYSN,IODEV=SYSDISK2,BTYPE=ATA,SUBFS=SYSSUBFS31&SYSSUBFS41; Initiates a new I/O-device.
FICRI:SUBFS=SYSSUBFS31,SIZE=128;
Y;
FICRI:SUBFS=SYSSUBFS41,SIZE=128;
Y; Creates two 128 MB subfilesystems.
FIMOI:SUBFS=SYSSUBFS31,PATH=/SYSN/USR3;
FIMOI:SUBFS=SYSSUBFS41,PATH=/SYSN/USR4; Mount the new subfile systems.
FIDIIATH=/SYSN/USR3/SES;
FIDIIATH=/SYSN/USR3/SES/DR; Create USR3 directories
FIDIIATH=/SYSN/USR4/SES;
FIDIIATH=/SYSN/USR4/SES/DR; Create USR4 directories
FICPI:SPATH=/SYSN/USR1/SES/DR,PATH=/SYSN/USR3/SES/DR,COOP=DIR;
FICPI:SPATH=/SYSN/USR2/SES/DR,PATH=/SYSN/USR4/SES/DR,COOP=DIR; Copy REL1 to USR3 and

REL2 to USR4
BLEQE:EQU=1-0-60-0; Deblocking of the dump channel.

BR,


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[Avstral]

snakeblitsen,

If you just need to upload backup from MD remotely, you can do it easily via FTP.
NIU/NIU2 has IP port, IP address and build in FTP server.

Theoretically you can upload MD backup via dial-up modem using X-modem protocol.
The only problem - this is rather boring exercise
1 LIM system REL in bc11/12 is ~15 Meg of data.

Regards

 

[Isinor]

Hi Snakebiltsen,

FTP using MD Disktool (Part of the SAM Toolbox) is the best way to do this IMHO. You can schedule this to run automatically every day etc.



Regards
Isinor

 

[EchoSpark]

Hi,

I used FTP (MD Disk Tool) and copied the REL to PC using a network connection to the NIU (via Telnet). and the following month i can't connect though i have the same settings and i can ping IP address. What can be wrong?

 

[LME]

Hi

Fisbi can be used on BC12 NIU2.
It has been tested on 28 Lims using HDU7/1 with 2x190mb partitions REL1 and REL2 and safety disk HDU7/1 with 190mb partition.
The safety disk reloads the system.
Flash ram was not used as its capacity is to small.

" The proof of the pudding is in the eating "