HP-UX 11.31 make_tape_recovery make_medialif error

[Martin Oravec]

HI Gurus!

I have a problem running "make_tape_recovery" on my newly installed HP-UX PA server.

Server is patched to the newest release.

Ignite-UX Revision C.7.13.240.

I'm running "make_tape_recovery -i" and then i interactively select options: entire vg00, tar archive...

I've got 15 GB of free space on /var.

Tape was used previously for backup but i think Ignite-UX should overwrite it.

Backing up older HP-UX 11.11 and 11.31 with same type of tape and drive was successful

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NOTE:    Detected entries in the defaults file at /var/opt/ignite/recovery/defaults.

       * Checking Versions of Ignite-UX filesets
       * Scanning system for IO devices...
       * Boot device is: 0/1/1/0.0x1.0x0
       * Creating System Configuration.
       * /opt/ignite/bin/save_config -f /var/opt/ignite/recovery/2011-11-10,08:50/system_cfg vg00
       * Backing Up Volume Group /dev/vg00
       * /usr/sbin/vgcfgbackup /dev/vg00
       * Creating Map Files for Volume Group /dev/vg00
       * /usr/sbin/vgexport -s -p -m /etc/lvmconf/vg00.mapfile /dev/vg00

       * Creating Control Configuration.
       * Creating Archive File List
       * Creating Archive Configuration

       * /opt/ignite/lbin/make_arch_config -c /var/opt/ignite/recovery/2011-11-10,08:50/archive_cfg -g /var/opt/ignite/recovery/2011-11-10,08:50/flist -n
         2011-11-10,08:50 -r pa -b 64 -d Recovery\ Archive -t 1 -i 1 -m t
       * Saving the information about archive to /var/opt/ignite/recovery/previews
       * Creating The Tape Archive
make_medialif: ERROR: Cannot lifcp -r -K2 file "/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.31/SYSCMDSIA" to "/var/tmp/uxinstlf.recovery:SYSCMDSIA":
        lifcp: Cannot create SYSCMDSIA ; no space on the LIF volume
ERROR:   System Error, /opt/ignite/bin/make_medialif failed creating boot LIF file.
ERROR:   Failed to generate LIF on tape.

=======  11/10/11 08:51:57 MET  make_tape_recovery completed unsuccessfully

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Please help.

[Martin Oravec]

Me again...

i realized that on this system the DDS tape is not recognized:

ioscan -fnC tape
Class     I  H/W Path     Driver S/W State   H/W Type     Description
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tape      0  0/1/1/1.3.0  stape   CLAIMED     DEVICE       HP      C7438A
                         /dev/rmt/0m            /dev/rmt/0mn                          /dev/rmt/c3t3d0BEST         /dev/rmt/c3t3d0BESTn
                         /dev/rmt/0mb          /dev/rmt/0mnb                       /dev/rmt/c3t3d0BESTb       /dev/rmt/c3t3d0BESTnb

On the older systems (where the Ignite-UX works) the output is like:

ioscan -fnC tape
Class     I  H/W Path     Driver S/W State   H/W Type     Description
=====================================================================
tape      0  0/1/1/1.3.0  stape   CLAIMED     DEVICE       HP      C7438A
                        /dev/rmt/0m             /dev/rmt/0mn                           /dev/rmt/c3t3d0BESTn       /dev/rmt/c3t3d0DDSb

                        /dev/rmt/0mb           /dev/rmt/c3t3d0dBEST          /dev/rmt/c3t3d0BESTnb     /dev/rmt/c3t3d0DDSn

                        /dev/rmt/0mn           /dev/rmt/c3t3d0BESTb          /dev/rmt/c3t3d0DDS           /dev/rmt/c3t3d0DDSnb

I did not find differences in configurations, only in versions:

System that works:          HP-UX 11.11, Ignite-UX Revision B.5.1.33

System that don't work:   HP-UX 11.31, Ignite-UX Revision C.7.13.240

Is there any driver for HP-UX 11.31 to support DDS tapes?

Thanks in advance.