Caldera BACKUP.UNET Customization and Reference Guide

The BACKUP.UNET Customization and Reference Guide provides a single document that explains the concepts and components of BACKUP.UNETTM. Each concept is explained in detail in its own chapter. After reading about how a concept works, you can implement it as described in the user`s guide that corresponds to your user interface.

This guide contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1, About BACKUP.UNET, describes the BACKUP.UNET performance and network service features.
Chapter 2, BACKUP.UNET Concepts, provides an overview of basic terms and concepts used in BACKUP.UNET.
Chapter 3, Managing Privileges, explains the privilege hierarchy within BACKUP.UNET and the functions associated with each privilege.
Chapter 4, Backing Up Data, explains basic concepts about backing up data and discusses some common backup strategies.
Chapter 5, Using a Worklist, explains how BACKUP.UNET uses a worklist to select the files and directories to backup. Also provides instructions for using the worklist keywords to modify the default worklist or to create your own worklist.
Chapter 6, Restoring Data, explains the required permissions and includes some guidelines for restoring large files, files and directory permissions, symbolic links, and raw partitions.
Chapter 7, Customizing the nbkMSGS File, explains each of the configuration parameters contained in the nbkMSGS file, and provides instructions on how to change them to customize BACKUP.UNET for your environment.
Chapter 8, Using Processing Escapes, explains how to use processing escapes to customize backup and restore processing.
Chapter 9, Managing Backup Volumes, explains backup volume label information, media type files, and adding new volumes.
Chapter 10, Managing Media Pools, explains the concepts of media pools, pool masters, and binding pools to a host.
Chapter 11, Recycling Backup Volumes, explains how recycling works, how to use the recycle script, automatic and manual recycling, and moving backup information to online and offline storage.
Chapter 12, Managing BACKUP.UNET Catalogs, explains each of the tables that make up the BACKUP.UNET catalogs. Also provides instructions on repairing a damaged table index, rebuilding an index, and viewing the contents of an index.
Chapter 13, BACKUP.UNET Utility Reference, provides detailed reference information about each of the utilities you can use to rebuild or repair the tables in the BACKUP.UNET catalogs.
Chapter 14, BACKUP.UNET Daemon Reference, explains each of the daemons (BRP, IOP, and scheduler) and other processes used in BACKUP.UNET.
Chapter 15, BACKUP.UNET Home Directory Reference, describes the files and subdirectories in the BACKUP.UNET home directory.
Chapter 16, System Recovery, provides step by step instructions for performing a full system recovery from your backup volumes.
Chapter 17, Using Standard UNIX Utilities to Recover BACKUP.UNET Tables, provides instructions for using standard UNIX to recover BACKUP.UNET tables.

References and Related Documentation

This book refers to specific sections in other BACKUP.UNET documentation that you might find useful as background or in support of this product. The sections are mentioned where their content is appropriate, and are as follows:

Getting Started Guide. Provides an introduction to BACKUP.UNET, shows you how to set up a minimal configuration for your system, and provides fundamental procedures on backing up and restoring files, and updating the BACKUP.UNET software.
Installation Guide. Provides information on preparing for installation, includes a checklist of information needed for installation, and details the steps of the installation process.
Command Reference Guide. Provides reference information describing each of the BACKUP.UNET commands and the optional arguments that you can use with them.
Motif GUI User's Guide. Shows you how to use the Motif GUI to back up and restore data, recycle media storage volumes, and archive backed up information.
Jukebox Supplement. Provides checklists and detailed instructions for installing and configuring tape jukeboxes to run in a BACKUP.UNET environment. These instructions include information specific to the currently supported jukebox types.

Additional information can be found in the following documents:

Release Notes. This tape file contains additional information to make the current release of BACKUP.UNET easier to install and use.
Functional Specification. This document presents an overview of BACKUP.UNET, a summary of features, a description of BACKUP.UNET commands, an overview oft he installation process, and an outline of the BACKUP.UNET file structure and of the format of the worklist file.