HP fbackup and write to separate dir instead of tape

Can I get fbackup to write to a separate directory rather than to tape.
I am trying to modify a backup routine that writes files to tape. But, we
want to take those files tar them up and send them to our offsite backup.
So I would prefer if I could do an fbackup to the /backup directory then tar
them up.
This is modifying the script the least possible.

Am I on the write track? Can it be done?
They are the archive logs of a database.


HPUX 11.0
Laura

Hi,


On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:39:11 -0500, LHradowy wrote:
> Can I get fbackup to write to a separate directory rather than to tape.
> I am trying to modify a backup routine that writes files to tape. But, we
> want to take those files tar them up and send them to our offsite backup.
> So I would prefer if I could do an fbackup to the /backup directory then tar
> them up.
> This is modifying the script the least possible.
>
> Am I on the write track? Can it be done?
> They are the archive logs of a database.

According to the man pages it shouldn't be a problem to have fbackup
write to a file instead of a tape; just use the -f option (I'm sure
you're already using it for writing to the tape). Take a look at the
man pages for the details.


Best regards,
Morten

--
Who needs a life when you've got Unix? :-)

I am not sure this makes sense. Backing up the files into a single fbackup
file would, it seems, make for an extra step with no advantages. Fbackup
doesn't compress so the backup file would be the size of the original files.
So why not create a subdirectory in /backup for the files and then just copy
them with cpio which has the ability to recreate the structure or just use
the cp(1) command if there is no subdirectory structure? Then just back them
up from there with your tar. The advantage is that it is easier to recover a
single file.

The advantages of fbackup over other utilities are mostly lost when you
backup to the disk.

john

"LHradowy" <> wrote in message
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> Can I get fbackup to write to a separate directory rather than to tape.
> I am trying to modify a backup routine that writes files to tape. But, we
> want to take those files tar them up and send them to our offsite backup.
> So I would prefer if I could do an fbackup to the /backup directory then
tar
> them up.
> This is modifying the script the least possible.
>
> Am I on the write track? Can it be done?
> They are the archive logs of a database.
>
>
> HPUX 11.0
> Laura
>
>

I'm looking at a very similar situation.

We can't use CPIO due to the 2GB file size limitation.
I want to copy my files to another directory, and then use a tape backup to backup the offline copy of data.

This way we could copy from dir to dir in the even we need to restore a file before going to tape.