CMS Backups onto LAN 1

[ecscomms]

Hello,

I was wondering if there was a document or procedeure for getting all the CMS data backed-up to a SUN SAN or NAS.

Is there a script that we can use to backup the CMS system to anything other than the attached tape drive?

Thanks

Mark

 

[BIS]

Hallo,

Make sure you have enough space ( df -k)

1. mkdir /cms/datadump
2. cd /cms/datadump
3. touch data

This will create an empty file called /cms/datadump/data

4. Go the CMS menus Maintenance --- backup devices and add a new tape device ( call it what you like and give the destination of /dev/rmt/0 when complete go back to a unix prompt

Now change the destination to /cms/datadump/data for the new tape drive you have just added

Do the maintenance backup to the new tape device

Go to the /cms/datadump directory, you will see a large file called data

This is your backup - you can compress it if you want, ftp iy somewhere etc etc.

As far as I know this is the only way to do the backup to any other media than tape.

Hope this helps.

 

[ecscomms]

Thanks for the post I will try it next week.