In the following examples, the vxdump utility is used to ascertain whether /dev/rdsk/fsvol/vol1
is a snapshot mounted as /backup/home
and does the appropriate work to get the snapshot data through the mount point.
These are typical examples of making a backup of a 300,000 block file system named /home
using a snapshot file system on a Volume Manager volume with a snapshot mount point of /backup/home
.
To create a backup using a snapshop file system
To back up files changed within the last week using cpio:
# mount -t vxfs -o snapof=/home,snapsize=100000 \ /dev/vx/dsk/fsvol/vol1 /backup/home # cd /backup # find home -ctime -7 -depth -print | cpio -oc > /dev/st1 # umount /backup/home
To do a level 3 backup of /dev/vx/rdsk/fsvol/vol1
and collect those files that have changed in the current directory:
# vxdump 3f - /dev/vx/rdsk/fsvol/vol1 | vxrestore -xf -
To do a full backup of /home
, which exists on disk /dev/vx/rdsk/fsvol/vol1
, and use dd to control blocking of output onto tape device using vxdump:
# mount -t vxfs -o snapof=/home,snapsize=100000 \ /dev/vx/dsk/fsvol/vol1 /backup/home # vxdump f - /dev/vx/rdsk/fsvol/vol1 | dd bs=128k > /dev/st1