HP Certified: HP-UX System Administration

SAM can be used to create automated or interactive backup. When you go to the SAM Backup and Recovery area, a window like the one shown in Figure 23-1 appears.

Click on the Automated Backups icon, and the window shown in Figure 23-2 will appear. Here an empty screen shows that there is no automated backup scheduled. To schedule a backup, first you need to add a device on which the backup will be created. This is done using the Actions menu as shown in the figure.

When you move to the window shown in Figure 23-3, you will put in the information for the backup device, backup scope, and backup time.

When you click on the Specify Backup Device button, SAM will search for valid devices and will show you a list of the devices, as shown in Figure 23-4.

You have to select one of the displayed devices in Figure 23-4 and press the OK button. Since the device shown here is a tape backup device and you can use different tape characteristics, the window shown in Figure 23-5 will appear, where you can select a tape device for a particular set of characteristics. Let's select the 0m device for the tape drive.

Now you will select Backup Scope . Here you select directories to be included or excluded from the backup as shown in Figure 23-6. This will help in creating a graph file for the backup.

In the last step, you have to select the backup time, as shown in Figure 23-7.

After making these selections, you go back to the window shown in Figure 23-2, but now a list of scheduled backups appear in the window, as shown in Figure 23-8. The first line shows that a full backup will be performed on the first day of the month at 1 a.m. The second line shows that an incremental backup will be done on the days from Monday to Friday at 2 a.m.

During the scheduled backup time, a tape cartridge must be present in the tape drive. You can replace the tape cartridge during the daytime, and the backup may be unattended in the night.