Tsaif And Nbackup Examples - Novell IFOLDER 3.7 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

Option
--target-type=target_name
-T, --input-file=file
-U, --user=username
TSAIF does not support the following nbackup(1) options:
Option
-m, --move-to=path
-r, --restore-to="backup_path new_path"
If TSAIF cannot back up or restore a file, it skips the file and returns a warning. This can occur for
various reasons. When this occurs,
list of each file that was skipped along with the date and time it was skipped and the error code that
was returned.
If files are skipped, try to resolve the issue, then run the operation again.
If you are unable to identify why the file was skipped, try running the operation again when the
server is less busy.
If files are skipped during a restore, and if relatively few files are skipped, try individually restoring
each skipped file.
The back-up administrator should use root or root-equivalent system user for bothe back-up and
restore.

9.7.8 TSAIF and NBackup Examples

The following examples show how to perform typical TSAIF backup and restore operations using
NBackup.
Backup or Restore
Task
Full backup
Full restore
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Command
Connects to the TSA specified by
the target name is Linux, NetWare, or iFolder.
Takes file containing fully qualified paths as input for
creating archive. This file should contain one path per line.
Username to use while connecting to the TSA.
nbackup(1)
Command
nbackup -cvf full.sidf -U root -P password
--target-type=ifolder /
nbackup -xvf full.sidf -U root -P password
--target-type=ifolder
Command
Extracts the archive to the given path.
This does not work with TSAIF because
iFolder puts files in a
directory.
Restores by replacing
with
new_path
This does not work with TSAIF because
iFolder puts files in a
directory.
creates a file with a
.warn
, where
target_name
SimiasFiles
backup_path
.
SimiasFiles
extension that contains a