topic Re: ignite restore problem in Operating System - HP-UX

ignite restore problem

Rick Garland — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:26:21 GMT

Hi all:

Got Ignite-UX c.6.8.x and did Ignite copy of a rp8400 system (vg00)

Put in new drives and I am trying to restore. Boots from the tape, finds the archive, positions the archive, starts reading the archive, then errors out saying "this does not look like a tar tape"

What gives?

Re: ignite restore problem

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:33:21 GMT

Shalom Rick,

Was the Ignite image made with special options?

If not, I'd say the image is worthless. I'd attribute it to an error that should have crashed the image build or an error in the Ignite software itself.

SEP

Re: ignite restore problem

Rick Garland — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:51:42 GMT

options
-a /dev/rmt/1mn -I -t host_20060816 -x inc_entire=vg00

The log says ignite created successfully - there were no errors or warnings.

Re: ignite restore problem

Adisuria Wangsadinata_1 — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:31:40 GMT

Hi Rick,

Did you try to verify the tape itself :

# mt -f /dev/rmt/1mn rew
# mt -f /dev/rmt/1mn fsf 1
# tar -tvf /dev/rmt/1mn

With this we can indicate whether the data on the tape is good or not.

Hope this information can help.

Cheers,
AW

Re: ignite restore problem

Rick Garland — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:00:40 GMT

Will try the verification later today. Making another Ignite tape you I can cover my as*!

Re: ignite restore problem

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:16:14 GMT

I lean toward a serious bug.

Maybe there is a problem with pax and tar

Don't count on another backup with the same version of Ignite being any good.

SEP

Re: ignite restore problem

Rick Garland — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:36:14 GMT

OK, let's take it as a bug.

This is C.6.8.152 - which is (or was) the latest last week. A quick check shows it is still the latest.

Next step. How to get an older version for 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23?

What steps to take to alert HP?