System backup

i am using mac os tiger but now i want to switch over to leopard..i have got the leopard uptodate dvd...
i also want to keep a backup of the tiger to avoid any inconvenience...kindly guide me about the system files that need the backup so that i may easily get back to tiger in case i face any problem..
i am going to use carbon copy cloner for this purpose..
thanks

is it possible that i just choose the important system files and program to create a backup file?
It's not possible and you are not creating a backup file with carbon copy cloner. You need a separate firewire connected external disk. As the program's name states you are making a carbon copy of a bootable disk. The copy will also be bootable. In the unlikely event that you wanted to go back to Tiger you would boot from the clone disk and use carbon copy cloner to copy the clone back to the disk in the MBP. However long the copy takes it is time well spent.

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Hello,
sorry about my English.
I need to create a image of entire disk or a system backup. I think use "ufsdump" but I'm not sure. Can I create a backup of whole disk with "ufsdump" command? Are there any application to do it.?
I've got a Solaris 10.
Thank.
Alejandro.

If you want to create an image of the entire disk, then `dd' is an option. But you can also use ufsdump to create an image of a filesystem running on that disk, but you need to do that for every filesystem on the disk and please keep a copy of you vtoc for the future if you need to restore everything.
On the other hand you make me thing about someone who wants to clone machines and then a Flash Archive can also be an option. Please keep in mind to ask the question in the future instead of conformation of your answer ;-)

How to Create a OLAP Cube in DEV using SSAS from Raw file system backup from Production?

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How do I create a cube in Dev using this file system backup.
we are on SQL Server 2008R2.
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Time Machine will not complete a system backup and terminates with "Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume. This follows a problem when Time machne terminated when the volume was almost full.

On 11/1/2011, Time Machine (TM) terminated with an error message I did not record. I noted that the drive was full and decided to do a separate complete bootable system backup using Carbon Copy Clone (CCC), before clearing the TM volume and trying to start it over clean. Part way through the full system backup CCC put up a message that there was a Physical Problem "Library/Application Support/Techtool Protection/McIntosh HD/Directory Backup 2011-11-01-16-28-16". That was about the time that TM malfunctioned, so I assumed they were related. After starting CCC over a couple of times, and getting the same error message, I let it go through to completion of the backup, which took three or four hours. I then ran tests using Disk Utility and verified that there was nothing physically wrong with both the internal hard drive and the TM volume. I also erased and reformatted the TM volume. However, every time I started Time Machine, it would record a few GB and terminate with "Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume". I restarted the computer with no change in results. Note that prior to starting the CCC backup, I "Repaired Permissions", "zapped the PRAM" and "re-set the SMC", hoping to have a clean bootable system on the backup. I ran Techtool and no problems were found.
I'm running this on an Intel iMac under 10.5.8 and recording to a 500GB My Passport drive. My hard drive is only about half full at 246 GB. My assessment is that something happened at 16-28-16 on 11/1/2001 to screwup the Backup Directory in the file at "Library/Application Support/Techtool Protection/McIntosh HD/Directory Backup 2011-11-01-16-28-16". My question is, how do I fix it?
I had just completed writing everything above here, explaining the problems I had been encountering for the past 24 hours. I had the Time Machine window standing open on the desktop where I could see it, having recentlycleared it after the last termination. As I was proofing what I had written, I looked at the window and noted that the clock had started a new run for a full back up, since all prior efforts had failed and the TM volume was empty. As I watched and waited for it to fail again, as it had been doing at about 13 GB, it kept going and going until it just finished a complete backup, about 4.5 hours later, with my having done nothing. Now my question would have to be - what could possiibly have happened to make it perform this way? It will be interesting to see if it continue to operate normally, or if the problem will return, in a later backup run.

jcm21 wrote:
CCC put up a message that there was a Physical Problem "Library/Application Support/Techtool Protection/McIntosh HD/Directory Backup 2011-11-01-16-28-16"
You should not keep those files for long, and probably shouldn't back them up (if you need them at all -- since you do regular backups, I'm doubtful just how worthwhile that feature is).
"Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume".
One of Apple's maddeningly incomplete messages. Most likely, there's a problem with a file (quite possibly the one CCC didn't like). See #C3 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting for details and instructions on finding and fixing it.
If you continue running the Directory Protection app, be sure to exclude your Time Machine drive from it (as it will just take up lots of room, and won't help repair your backups if there's a problem); and exclude the folders it creates from being backed-up by Time Machine (as they'll create large backups, and you probably can't use the backed-up folders anyway), per #10 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.

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env: testing
rhel 5.5
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2. how do i label the tape for slot 1 - slot 10 by obtool ? how to control osb auto load the tape for next backup ? where to check the log say that next tape is tape-02 ?
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hi dcooksey
how do i use list for a tape drive...for example, if you want tape drive A to only use slots 1-10 from obtool or webtool ?
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for upgrade application ,
perform full system backup after daily backup , then release the server to application team to perform upgrading .
so how to set my media family for the above setting ? the slot configuration is control by media family ?
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Abap+Java System Backup

Dear Experts,
We just take our bi system(abap+java) backup online, so could you please help me which files we need to backup during the Sap system is online,
As the below help.sap.com link said that for filesystem backup "Create a backup of the SAP system directory /usr/sap/<SID>." (before we need to stop SDM)
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/4b/d8f23ea4b42e5ae10000000a114084/content.htm
Can we backup entire /usr/sap/<SID> directory while sap and db is still runnig ? if not which directories we need to backup ?
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Best Regards,
Atakan

As suggested you can either go with the ofline backup for the abap and for Java you need to have the filesystem backup.
Or you should go witht he file system backup of all the file system.But for that you need downtime.
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And just the online backup completes have the Java export of the Java system of your BI.Durng the exportthe SDM will stop while the Servernode and the dispatcher service will be running,so no error will occur when some one is using the JAVA BI.
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Rishi Abrol

When trying to do a system backup to my remote LaCie hard drive, what does it mean when I get a message that says "waiting for volume LaCie disk"? While this message apears no back-up occurs. Is there a setting I need to change?

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You can't do a backup of icloud to an external drive. In fact, does your post have anything to do with icloud (you're in the icloud forum)?
What kind of "system backup" are you doing? Are you using Time Machine?

File System backup and restore command

Hi All,
I require File System Backup and Restore command in AIX to Trivoli Storage Manager.Please send me the commands.
Thanks in Advance
Regards,
Soumya

Please check this out
Restore
http://www.ahinc.com/aix/backup.htm
restore -xvf/dev/rmt0 Restores all the files located on the tape device that were backed up using the backup command.
Backup
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds1/backup.htm
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dEE

FILE SYSTEM BACKUP IS HANGING ON OSB

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i am attaching the logs
WEB TOOL LOG
admin/5.1
Type     backup osb-server
Level     full
Family     FS-BKP-MF
Encryption     off
Scheduled time     04/19.11:29
Introduction time     2012/04/19.16:59
Earliest exec time     04/19.11:29
Last update time     2012/04/19.17:23
Expire time     never
State     running since 2012/04/19.17:23
Priority     100
Privileged op     yes
Run on host     osb-server
Requires     host osb-server and family FS-BKP-MF and any device
Attempts     2
Log
     2012/04/19.16:59:49 Job created.
     2012/04/19.16:59:49 Dispatching job to run on administrative server.
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ob> lsdev
drive tc-tape in service
ob> pingd tc-tape
Info: drive tc-tape accessible.
ob>
ob> lsdev -lg
tc-tape:
Device type: tape
Model: [none]
Serial number: [none]
In service: yes
Automount: yes
Error rate: 8
Query frequency: 1024KB (1048576 bytes) (from driver)
Debug mode: no
Blocking factor: (default)
Max blocking factor: (default)
UUID: 26934f4f-fe7b-49ce-a3ed-034a7c9ad046
Attachment 1:
Host: osb-server
Raw device: //./obt0
Connection type: SCSI
Inquiry data:
Vendor: HP
Product: C1537A
Firmware: L111
Tape state: online, write protected
Hardware compression: on
Last read was: compressed
Hardware encryption: not available
Maximum block size: 61440
Remaining tape: 3615300 (uncompressed) blocks (3.70GB)
ob>
please guide me resolve this issue ..
Regards
ASA
Edited by: 927832 on Apr 19, 2012 5:10 AM

Hi Rich
Thanks for your reply.
since i am using a stand alone Tape drive, we will not able to take the inventory , isn't it ?
i hope that my media family parameters are correct only .please find the media family details below.
media family name :- test-media-family
volume id used :- unique to this media family
volume expiration :- 3 years
appendable :- yes
rotation policy & volume duplication policy are ;- none
====================================
While i am mounting the Tape to the drive is gives the following error
ob> mountdev -w test-tape
Error: can't mount volume in test-tape - timed out waiting for bot
ob>
Edited by: 927832 on Apr 20, 2012 3:04 AM

Development System Backup - Best Practice / Policy for offsite backups

Hi, I have not found any recommendations from SAP on best practices/recommendations on backing up Development systems offsite and so would appreciate some input on what policies other companies have for backing up Development systems. We continuously make enhancements to our SAP systems and perform daily backups; however, we do not send any Development system backups offsite which I feel is a risk (losing development work, losing transport & change logs...).
Does anyone know whether SAP have any recommendations on backuping up Development systems offsite? What policies does your company have?
Thanks,
Thomas

Thomas,
Your question does not mention consideration of both sides of the equation - you have mentioned the risk only. What about the incremental cost of frequent backups stored offsite? Shouldn't the question be how the 'frequent backup' cost matches up with the risk cost?
I have never worked on an SAP system where the developers had so much unique work in progress that they could not reproduce their efforts in an acceptable amount of time, at a acceptable cost. There is typically nothing in dev that is so valuable as to be irreplaceable (unlike production, where the loss of 'yesterday's' data is extremely costly). Given the frequency that an offsite dev backup is actually required for a restore (seldom), and given that the value of the daily backed-up data is already so low, the actual risk cost is virtually zero.
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From research it appears that this was a bug first disocvered in Mountain Lion.
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So this morning I decided to see if system backups had corrected itself by restarting and doing Command R etc - nup, same message.
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This simple procedure will clear your Time Machine settings, including exclusions. The backups won't be affected. If you have a long exclusion list that can't be recreated easily, you may prefer a more complicated procedure that preserves the exclusion list. In that case, ask for instructions. Otherwise, do as follows.
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/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
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Go ▹ Go to Folder...
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Java system backup

Hi,
what is the procedure for sap java standalone system backup. as per my knowledge, we need to take a backup of:
1. java database
2. file strucute (sdm) for configuration data
can any one provide me the complete document or steps to perform the standalone java system backup.
Thanks,
Niranjan.

hi Niranjan V,
i have followed follow the steps for backup in my landscape, the first procedure is the SAP recommended one for consistent backup for sap systemsand the second procedure may take more space, but it is very easy to recover the system in short time.
1) take a backup by sapinst ( master installer ) is know as system copy.
                 ( or )
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you have take the offline file backup by the following steps
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2) i have created the the floder named ->ex: aed_file_backup_042409 in AED_Backup folder
2) /usr/sap       entire folder
3) /oracle/AED    entire folder except 102_64, desktop
thank you,
Bharathi CH
Edited by: Bharathi Ch on Aug 6, 2009 9:20 AM
Edited by: Bharathi Ch on Aug 6, 2009 9:23 AM

How to recover DB2 using offline file system backup.

Gurus,
I had a problem with my BI PRD's database. 1 of my BI consultant accidently deleted some important 2010's data. We've try recover online database backup of BWP into BWQ and retrieve the missing data. However the backup retention period was expired and we dont have any available online backup now.
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My question:-
Can i restore the file system (offline backup) into BWQ and rebuild my DB2 in BWQ. Please enlighten me.
Thanks,
Devan.

Hi
You can do it .The file system backup image can be mirroed into production system and by making using of "db2inidb" utility you can restore the whole database.
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Hi .
I'm creating some of documents for maintenance operation - hana server .
I want to confirm about backup of "HANA Server" . Also HANA server is SUSE linux , so normally I get backup of linux server by dump/restore command , use dd command when server offline and on rescue mode kernel , or use something disk(partition) image backup tool .
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DB-11gR1
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Oracle Database Point intime recovery with File System backup.

Hi.. Experts...
We have shutdown the database and have take a file system backup on
09.10.2010 @ 10 AM.
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TAIL END MESSAGE OF RECOVERY COMMAND
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