2 questions about HP 9000 E55

[manuel j hurtado m]

hi First question, this server (E55) support HP-UX 11.00.
2nd questions, i made a recovery tape with make_tape_recovery, went i try to recover it begins well, made the vg,create the filesystems but went it must to begin to download the files send me this error: pax_iux=the archive is empty, and i made this tape and log told me that this tape is good

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Yes, the E55 supports 11.0:

http://devrsrc1.external.hp.com/STK/serversupport.html


Despite the fact that your log told you this tape was good, it does not seem to be. I would re-make the archive.


Pete

[manuel j hurtado m]

i remake the tape 4 times with diferents tape , the server have all patches needed

[Bill Hassell]

1. Make sure you have the latest verion of Ignite/UX (download it, don't use it from an HP-UX cold install)

2. Make sure pax is the latest version. MTR will test pax for a required filename handling problem but nothing else. Get the latest pax patch.

3. See if the archive actually has a second directory:

# mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn rewind
# mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn fsf
# tar tvf /dev/rmt/0mn

(/dev/rmt/0mnb is whatever your tape drive is with the No-Rewind option set. The atr should produce a long list of files.

4. When you run MTR, specify the verbose flag (-v) so you can see all the steps on the screen. It should match what is in /var/opt/ignite/recovery/latest/recovery.log

[Ted Buis]

If the tape drive is bad it will always make bad tapes. If you are using DAT2, you need to verify each tape, since those didn't do a read after write.

[Sยภเl Kย๓คг]

1.Check for tape drive,it should read properly]
till the end.
2.What is the Tape drive at IgniteUX server and
your E55 ignite client,is it same.After
making the tape using "make_tape_recovery"
remove the tape drive from ignite server and
put it in the client and install it.
2.still u are facing problem u can try
installing via network make_net_recovery(1M)

This sounds only the tape drive issue,

regards
SK

[Marlou Everson]

I realize this is 2 weeks later but I wanted to add that make_net_recovery will not work for the E55. In section 4.3 Networking Issues of the Ignite-UX Release Notes, it mentions that "The ... E class ... systems do not support network boot."

Marlou

[malvin drakley]

Hi Manuel, I had this problem yesterday because I didn't use the right syntax. After several attempts to replicate my L1000 I used
"make_tape_recovery -A -I -a /dev/rmt/0mn" and it worked for me. Managed to copy everything and copy from an 18gb drive to a 9gb drive
cheers
malvin