We use a remote shell dump command and pipe the output to a disk file on
a machine which is ADSM capable. Of course, you'll need plenty of disk space
for this option. Thus, you'll have a ADSM backup of a unix dump command
output. Restoring is a little more complex as you need to first do an ADSM
restore of the entire dump file and then run unix restore against this.
The sample crontab entries follow:
#----- WEEKLY LEVEL 0 BACKUPS of hpux 7 node
#
0 18 * * 6      rsh hpux7_node dump 0uf - / | /usr/bin/dd
of=/some/local/dir/hpux7_backup/hpux7_node_root_level0



Dennis Riley               riley AT timken DOT com
Unix System Admin.         216-471-3515
The Timken Company         Canton, OH


On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Robert Burns wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to backup an old HP9000/375 machine that is running HPUX 7.
> (yes it still exists !). My problem is that the ADSM 1.2.10 hpux client is
> incompatible with the old version of hpux. I get the following message when
> I try to execute dsmc :
>
>         ./dsmc: Executable file incompatible with hardware.
>
> So, I tried mounting the filesystems on another machine via NFS and then doing
> the backup via ADSM and NFS but unfortuantely the root privileges don't work
> across NFS (access to certain protected directories). HPUX 7 has no "-root="
> option in its /etc/exports file (at least not that I've been able to find).
>
> Has anyone out there got any bright ideas for backuping my hpux-7 filesystems
> with ADSM (and if anybody suggests upgrading HPUX I'll scream !).
>
> Bob.
>
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