User`s guide

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Standard 1.0 System Administration Guide January 1998
15 Back up and restore Meridian Mail data 15-1
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-2
Section A: Preparing for backups 15-3
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-4
The three types of backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-5
Selective backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-6
Partial backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-8
Full backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-9
Volumes to back up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-10
How often to do backups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-11
Disk backup or tape backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-13
Before you perform a backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-14
Section B: Full and partial backups to tape 15-15
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-16
Performing a full backup to tape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-18
Performing a partial backup to tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-20
Section C: Selective backup of users and services 15-23
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-24
Backing up all users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-25
Backing up individual users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-27
Backing up all users in a specified volume. . . . . . . . . . . . 15-29
Backing up all users assigned to a particular
class of service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-31
Backing up all users in a specific department. . . . . . . . . . 15-33
Backing up all multimedia services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-35
Backing up selected individual multimedia services . . . . 15-37
Section D: Partial backups to disk 15-39
Performing a partial backup to disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-40
Section E: Scheduled backups 15-41
Scheduling the backup for a later time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-42
Deleting a scheduled backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-45
Section F: Backup maintenance 15-47
Checking the status of a backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-48
Cleaning/maintaining the tape drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-52