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Thanks Rob. I will go do some reading. I had thought of the tape and we already have two LTO-3s. One is currently only used once a week to make a duplicate copy of our primary backup tape which then goes to a remote facility. We could easily give the AIX partition full access to this drive
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 8:56 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Partitioning newbie question
There's two ways to configure this. One is 'dedicated' lpar that does not
use the storage underneath /QFPNWSSTG as it's disk storage. The other is
as a guested lpar. They have their pros and cons.
There is also a redbook that talks about backup strategies as you are
exactly asking. Actually now that I am double checking it seems that
Linux individual file backup is covered plainly in the 6.1 Infocenter. No
mention of AIX. And there are lots of restrictions on which directories
can be backed up. And file sizes too. While 4gb may seem like quite a
bit, I've got email files that are over 18GB. A total of 82 email files
exceeding 4gb.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/cmaqj3
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/scope/i5os/topic/rzalm/rzalmbackinguplinuxfiles.htm?tocNode=%74%6f%63%3a%72%7a%61%68%67%2f%69%35%6f%73%2f%38%2f%34%2f%38%2f%38%2f
Better do your own research on that redbook.
Another option is to get a separate tape drive or to share a tape drive.
Rob Berendt
midrange.com
