Re: [cobalt-developers] help: cobalt 2 backup hangs and needs reboot

[Byron Servies <byron.servies@xxxxxxx>]

On January 16, 2002 at 04:57, Frank Mattes wrote:
> dear cobalt experts, 
> 
> I have big problems with backing up my cobalt cube 2
> over a network. I tried so far to method, but in both
> cases the cobalt hangs and need a reboot during the
> backup ( 2 ~ Gbyte).
> 
> 1) From a mac by retospect to a dat tape over
> appletalk
> 2) fom hpux to a dat tape, cobalt file system mounted
> by nfs.
> 
> I'm wondering if someone knows what I'm doing wrong ?.
> Does anyone know a good method of backing up the cube
> ?

Hi,

I hate to say it, but probably your best be right now is to
use rsync on the qube2 and back up to your hpux box (perhaps
via ssh if you are concerned with security on your local net).

The examples at <http://rsync.samba.org/rsync/examples.html>
will show you how.

Byron