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Virtual Partition and tapes for recovery

Roberto Volsa — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:51:58 GMT

Hello,
my environment has two Vpar configured on an Npar; HPUX is 11iVi and Vpar is 3.03.
Both Vpars has DDS tapes connected, and assigned to them using the LA where the drive is pysically connected.
I can see the DAT thrugh ioscan on bot vpars, but not using vparstatus -v.
In order to use the tape for recovery (make_tape_recovery), di i need to add the DAT to vpar configuration (vparmodify -p vparname -a io:HW_PATH:TAPE), or can i use it directly?

thanks and regards,
RV

Re: Virtual Partition and tapes for recovery

Pete Randall — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:58:22 GMT

Roberto,

As I recall, you do need to modify your vpar definition, but, rather than trust my memory, check this document:

http://docs.hp.com/en/5760/vPars_DVD_TAPE_NET_Usage_V2.pdf

Pete

Re: Virtual Partition and tapes for recovery

Roberto Volsa — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:39:00 GMT

Thanks Pete,
in the document you pointed it is written that with no TAPE flag (in vpar configuration) i can use the make_tape_recovery command but restore is necessarily cold.
With the TAPE flag i can do the restore with other vPars running inside the same nPar.

Thanks,
RV

Re: Virtual Partition and tapes for recovery

Roberto Volsa — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:40:47 GMT