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recommendations for backing up etc directory

mdvillanueva — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:21:38 GMT

Hi Experts,

I just want to hear your recommendations or even how you guys do it in your environment. etc contains many important config file, Snapmirror, exports, cifs. I wonder whats the best way to back it up? currently we just take daily snapshot of vol0. How do you guys do this in your environment?

Thanks,

Maico

Re: recommendations for backing up etc directory

billshaffer — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:03:43 GMT

We back it up via an NFS mount to a media server. You could do the same with a CIFS share.

Bill

Re: recommendations for backing up etc directory

mdvillanueva — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:35:46 GMT

Thanks! Can I use ndmp?

Re: recommendations for backing up etc directory

AGUMADAVALLI — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:17:12 GMT

snapvault the volume everyday or weekly onces. Thats work great then the manual ndmpcopy.

If you want it for one time, I would prefer just securecopy from windows host or scp from linux.

thank you,

AK G

Re: recommendations for backing up etc directory

billshaffer — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:14:09 GMT

You can use ndmp, though it seems like overkill for such a small data set.

Re: recommendations for backing up etc directory

ralfaro01zero — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:41:45 GMT

You can do a "config dump" as well to backup your configuration.

Cheers.