AIX - Backup

AIX - Backup

Using backup and tar command to we can take full backup and incremental backup

Using tar command we can normal backup, in this tar we cannot take day wise incremental backup

#tar –cvf destination source

#tar –cvf /dev/rmt0 /usr/sbin

#backup –if /dev/rmt0 /usr/sbin (For AIX full backup)

/usr/sbin directory files is backup to tape


Using backup command we can take incremental backup, this backup command is particularly for AIX.

In this backup command we can specify the day (0(sun) – 6(sat)).

If you want to take Sunday backup then your command will be

#backup -0 –vf destination source

#backup -0 –vf /dev/rmt0 /var

#backup -6 –vf /dev/rmt0 /var (Saturday backup)

/var file system log is backup to tape

Like this we can take normal and incremental backup in AIX.