https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/make-recovery-and-cpio/m-p/2542443#M865626 Depending on the type of tape drive you have, this may or may not work. Unless it has changed recently, you can only boot from a make_recovery tape that was created on a DDS or DLT tape. At one point I tried an 8mm tape and it didn't work. I haven't tried anything else recently.<BR /><BR />What you are wanting to do may work, but it would have to be a separate backup that is appended to the tape separately from the make_tape_recovery.<BR /><BR />I'm not sure I'd risk doing something like that myself. I would just as sonn keep the make_tape_recovery tape separate so that I know it is good, and not risk screwing it up by trying to append something at the end of it. Tue, 19 Jun 2001 17:29:00 GMT Patrick Wallek 2001-06-19T17:29:00Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/make-recovery-and-cpio/m-p/2542442#M865625 Is it possible to create a make_recovery tape and append all my data files to the end of it using cpio?<BR /> <BR />The background is that I have access to a large fast tape drive and I've been asked to to create regular full system backups on to a *single* tape for DR purposes. I've also been told to use cpio but I thought it would be neat to also use make_recovery to have a bootable tape which automatically recovers the OS initially. Tue, 19 Jun 2001 17:07:54 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/make-recovery-and-cpio/m-p/2542442#M865625 Christopher Jones_1 2001-06-19T17:07:54Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/make-recovery-and-cpio/m-p/2542443#M865626 Depending on the type of tape drive you have, this may or may not work. Unless it has changed recently, you can only boot from a make_recovery tape that was created on a DDS or DLT tape. At one point I tried an 8mm tape and it didn't work. I haven't tried anything else recently.<BR /><BR />What you are wanting to do may work, but it would have to be a separate backup that is appended to the tape separately from the make_tape_recovery.<BR /><BR />I'm not sure I'd risk doing something like that myself. I would just as sonn keep the make_tape_recovery tape separate so that I know it is good, and not risk screwing it up by trying to append something at the end of it. Tue, 19 Jun 2001 17:29:00 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/make-recovery-and-cpio/m-p/2542443#M865626 Patrick Wallek 2001-06-19T17:29:00Z