Free space on /var needed for make_recovery

[Dunja]

How much free space do I need on /var to make a recovery tape with make_recovery. Or how can I calculate the free space needed.

regards,
Henk

[CHRIS ANORUO]

Hello Henk,
Space is not an issue in this making of an archive recovery tape.
Any you can use this command to reduce the sizes of some of you log files.
Example: cat /dev/null > /var/adm/wtmp

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

make_recovery needs app. 50 MB in /var.

[CHRIS ANORUO]

Hello Henk,
Space is not an issue in this making of an archive recovery tape.
Any you can use this command to reduce the sizes of some of you log files.
Example: cat /dev/null > /var/adm/wtmp

[Andy Monks]

You can also 'commit' any patches which frees up lots of space in /var

swlist -l fileset -a name > /tmp/patchlist
swmodify -x patch_commit=true -f /tmp/patchlist

Then sit back, have a coffee and be amazed how much free space you have in /var

I got over 400MB back!

The downside is you can't ever swremove a patch once it's been committed!

[G.E. van Beek · Accepted solution]

Hi Henk,

The space you need to do a make_recovery tape depends on how much files resides in vg00. Also the use of the -C option needs more space. If you do not have enough space and want to make a Ignite bootable backup tape you can remove the data from /var/opt/ignite/logs (or even /var/opt/ignite) to a different filesystem with enough space and create a symbolic link to this new place. Now you can run make_recovery again without running out of /var space.

Note:
Removing /var/opt/ignite outside vg00 means that Ignite software is not included in the bootable tape !

[Robert Gamble]

Henk,

The make_recovery -b option allows to specify a different path where the (at least 32MB) LIF volume is written to, instead of the default of /var/tmp/uxinstlf.recovery.

I have used that in the past when I could not get any more room on /var.

Hope this helps! Good Luck!