HP UX Encrypted Volume and Filesystem (EVFS) manual Backup Types with Nonmirrored Volumes

Table 7-2 Backup Types with Nonmirrored Volumes

		Backup Utility		Source EVFS
Media Format	Target Device	Type	Supported?	Volume State	Notes
Encrypted	Tape or other	Block device	Yes	Raw	Offline Backup. See “Creating
	non-EVFS	utility, such as			Encrypted Backup Media to a
	device	dd			Non-EVFS Device (Nonmirrored
					Volumes)” (page 121).
Encrypted	Tape or other	File utility	No	–	–
	non-EVFS
	device
Encrypted	EVFS volume	Block device	Yes	Enabled	The source volume can be on line,
		utility, such as			but HP recommends that you stop
		dd			access to the source volume.
					The target EVFS volume must also
					be enabled.
					See “Creating Encrypted Backup
					Media on a Second EVFS Volume
					Using a Block Device Utility
					(Nonmirrored Volumes)”
					(page 123).
Encrypted	EVFS volume	File utility	Yes	Enabled	The source volume can be on line,
					but HP recommends that you stop
					access to the source volume.
					The target EVFS volume must also
					be enabled, and both EVFS
					volumes must have file systems
					mounted.
					See “Creating Encrypted Backup
					Media on a Second EVFS Volume
					Using a File Utility (Nonmirrored
					Volumes)” (page 124).
Cleartext	Tape or other	Block device	Yes	Enabled	The source volume can be on line,
	non-EVFS	utility, such as			but HP recommends that you stop
	device	dd			access to the source volume.
					See “Creating Cleartext Backup
					Media to a Non-EVFS Device
					(Nonmirrored Volumes)”
					(page 124).
Cleartext	Tape or other	File utility	Yes	Enabled	The source volume can be on line,
	non-EVFS				but HP recommends that you stop
	device				access to the source volume.
					The source volume must have a
					file system mounted.
					See “Creating Cleartext Backup
					Media to a Non-EVFS Device
					(Nonmirrored Volumes)”
					(page 124).
Cleartext	EVFS volume	Block device	No	–	–
		utility, such as
		dd
Cleartext	EVFS volume	File utility	No	–	–

104 Backing Up and Restoring Data on EVFS Volumes