Very Computer

hello,

I want to backup a solaris system which has veritas file system. So
far I have tried ufsdump, cpio, tar, all failed.

Is there any tools or commands to do this?

Quote:> hello,

> I want to backup a solaris system which has veritas file system. So
> far I have tried ufsdump, cpio, tar, all failed.

> Is there any tools or commands to do this?

vxdump

ufsdump uses UFS's raw device, and will certainly fail.
vxdump is the compatible tool for VXFS.

cpio and tar work with any file system. There is no problem with VXFS.

man cpio
man tar
man vxdump

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Michael Tosch / Master IS/IT Support
Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland GmbH
Tel: +49 2407 575 313

ufsdump won't work on a vxfs, that's true (clue - guess why it's called
UFSdump?), but the underlying filesystem won't affect cpio, tar or a
host of other utilities that read files and don't care about what kind
of filesystem they're on - you need to provide some more details of why
you think cpio and tar are "failing".

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Tony Walton

Do not put all your trust in root vegetables

Well, we do backup for one machine, then on another machine we do
recover. Use CPIO or tar. The problem is that we can not boot the
system now.

Since the machine is T4, and use fiber channel disk. we found that the
disk look like ( use format command)
 c1t0d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107>

backup, it copied the id. While recover on another machine, it can not
recognize the id, and that is the reason why fail. We have manually
fixed the id and now the system can boot.