The following describes the backing-up and restoring of the GFS Shared File System using.
Backing-up and restoring file by file
General-purpose backing-up tools not dependent on the file system structure (NetWorker, ArcServe/OPEN, etc.)
Standard Solaris OS commands cpio(1) and tar(1)
Backing-up and restoring entire file system
Standard Solaris OS commands dd(1M)
Note
Commands that depend on the file system structure, such as UFS ufsdump(1M) and VxFS vxdump(1M), cannot be used to back up a GFS Shared File System.
The following describes the backing-up and restoring data of the GFS Shared File System in this Chapter.
Backing-up and restoring data using Standard Solaris OS commands cpio(1), tar(1) and dd(1M).
