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Backing up a file system

After creating a snapshot file system, you can use vxdump to back it up.

 To back up a VxFS snapshot file system

vxdump [-c] [-f backupdev] snap_mount_point

Example of backing up a file system

The following example backs up the VxFS snapshot file system mounted at
/snapmount to the tape drive with device name
/dev/rvol00.

 To back up a VxFS snapshot file system

# vxdump -cf /dev/rvol00 /snapmount