make_net_recovery/cron

[Nobody's Hero]

Trying to run make command via cron. First make runs fine, whe nattempting to start the next I get an error message saying that a make_net is already running. Can you on;y run one make at a time via cron?

Here are my entries in cron.

16 07 * * 5 /opt/ignite/bin/make_net_recovery -s ihshp1 -x inc_entire=vg00
16 07 * * 5 /opt/ignite/bin/make_net_recovery -s ihshp2 -x inc_entire=vg00
16 07 * * 5 /opt/ignite/bin/make_net_recovery -s ihshp3 -x inc_entire=vg00
16 07 * * 5 /opt/ignite/bin/make_net_recovery -s ihshp4 -x inc_entire=vg00
16 07 * * 5 /opt/ignite/bin/make_net_recovery -s ihshp5 -x inc_entire=vg00

[Patrick Wallek]

What is it you are trying to accomplish?

With these cron entries you are saying that you want to create a make_net_recovery archive of the CURRENT system (the system with these cron entries) and store it on ihshp1, ihshp2, ihshp3, ihshp4 and ihshp5 so that you will have 5 copies of this system on different servers.

Note that the '-s server_name' option does NOT tell ignite which server to run the make_net_recovery on.
If you want to do a make_net_recovery of the servers ihshp[1-5] and STORE them on the CURRENT server then you need to add a cron entry to each of ihshp[1-5] and do something like:

# crontab -l <---- run from ihshp1 (or 2, 3,4, 5)

16 07 * * 5 /opt/ignite/bin/make_net_recovery -s ignite_server_name -s inc_entire=vg00

[Nobody's Hero]

Thanks Patrick,
Yes, My ignite server is HP4, that is where I have the cron entries. So I guess I need to execute the make_net_recovery from the client side? Not the server side?

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Robert,

Yes that is correct! The command you are using above need to be run from the client and specify the Ignite SERVER with the '-s' option.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Yes,

you have to execute the make_net_recovery from the client side.

client ihshp1

16 07 * * 5 /opt/ignite/bin/make_net_recovery -s hp4 -x inc_entire=vg00

Robert-Jan.