Starting FSE backup

NOTE: HP recommends that you perform your backups on a daily basis.

The fsebackup command

To start FSE backup, run the fsebackup command on the FSE server. After fsebackup invocation, a backup job is created in the FSE implementation, which performs all steps of the backup process. Common synopsis of the fsebackup command is the following:

fsebackup [––file BackupFileName [––nomedia]]

fsebackup [––file BackupFileName] [––medium Barcode [––init]]

The options --fileand ---nomediadetermine which backup destination will be used to store FSE backup image:

•If neither option is specified, the backup image will be copied to a backup FSE medium.

•If options --fileand --nomediaare specified, the backup image will be copied to a local or remote disk or share.

•If only the option --fileis specified, the backup image will be copied to a local or remote disk or share, as well as to a backup FSE medium.

BackupFileName can be absolute pathname, relative pathname, or filename. If . (dot) is specified instead of filename, the filename is automatically constructed from name of the host on which fsebackup is run and the current timestamp. The following template is used for automatic generation:

HostName–YYYYMMDD–hhmmss.tar.bz2

The .tar.bz2 extension is also appended to the filename if the specified filename does not already include it.

When tape or both backup destinations are selected, additional option --mediumselects a specific backup FSE medium to which the backup job will copy the backup image. The option --initcauses this backup FSE medium to be initialized before copying, if free storage space on it is insufficient.

IMPORTANT: If both backup destinations are selected (the --fileoption is specified without the additional --nomediaoption), and the backup image cannot be copied to tape for some reason (FSE media pool is not configured, all backup FSE media are full, the backup FSE medium specified by the options --mediaBarcode is full), the backup session as a whole will fail. However, the actual backup process will partially succeed and the backup image will be copied to disk. In the opposite case, when the backup image cannot be copied to disk for some reason, the backup process will fail completely and the backup image will neither be copied to tape.

For additional information on the fsebackup command, see the fsebackup man page.

Examples of backing up to disk

The FSE backup image will be stored to the share \\backup–server\backup_shareunder the name backup_image.tar.bz2. In this example, the FSE server is running on a Windows host:

C:\>fsebackup --file \\backup–server\backup_share\backup_image.tar.bz2 --nomedia

The FSE backup image will be stored on the file system /mnt/backup under the name backup_image_file.tar.bz2. In this example, the FSE server is running on a Linux host:

# fsebackup --file /mnt/backup/backup_image_file.tar.bz2 --nomedia

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File System Extender (FSE) specifications

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