topic ignite using more than one tape in Operating System - HP-UX

ignite using more than one tape

Tom Gore — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:33:17 GMT

My ignite backup just went to a second tape. What can I delete or cleanup to get it back down to one tape?

Thanks

Re: ignite using more than one tape

Clemens van Everdingen — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:34:10 GMT

Hi,

Try to check for core files or clean /var/adm/crash if anything there.
Exclude /tmp if it's to much filled with crap.
Run cleanup command to clean old patches.

Just some examples !

C.

Re: ignite using more than one tape

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:37:24 GMT

Hi Tom:

If you are in fact only incorporating vg00's standard logical volumes then you should be able to fit everything quite well on standard DDS2 or DDS3 tapes.

One thing you could do is run 'cleanup -c 1' [for 11.x systems] to reduce '/var/adm/sw'.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: ignite using more than one tape

Ian Dennison_1 — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:45:15 GMT

it sounds like you have a lot of stuff in vg00.

My philosophy is that an Ignite of vg00 is designed to create the core OS and provide Backup Agents (OmniBack in our case) so that the Backups can then be restored.

If you are running a large /var (for patched files), try creating a separate mount point for /var/adm/sw. Perhaps move certain logical volumes off vg00 onto vg01? or exclude certain large mount points?

Share and Enjoy! Ian

Re: ignite using more than one tape

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:55:46 GMT

Hi (again) Tom:

In addition, remember that 'make_tape_recovery' has the ability to include and exclude selected directories and/or files. Thus, if you have application filesystems on vg00 (although I hope not), you could exclude these in making your recovery tape with the idea that you would restore these using a separate backup mechanism.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: ignite using more than one tape

Tom Gore — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:44:15 GMT

Thanks to all. One of the mount points got a little too large. It has been brought back down to managable size.