How to take an ignite backup on the tape which is connected to another system.

[phani_3]

Is there anyway to take a ignite backup on the tape which is connected to another system ? If yes please let me know..this is little bit urgent.

Thanks,
Phani

[Pete Randall]

Phani,

Sorry to say Ignite won't do this. The tape device needs to be local.


Pete

[RAC_1]

No.

But you can prepare net recovery and put it onto tape.

[phani_3]

Hi Pete,

Thanks for your prompt reply..:)
Do you have any clear procedure where i can take ignite backup of the system on the other hp-ux server...i think make_net_recovery will do that..since i don't have much hands on this command..if you have any procedure on this please let me know.

Thanks,
Phani

[Jean-Louis Phelix · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Use make_net_recovery and create the tape on the ignite server using doc :

/opt/ignite/share/doc/makenetrec.txt

and search for "Creating a Bootable Archive Tape"

Regards.

[Steven E. Protter]

HP-9000 server tape drives can not be shared that way.

You can use make_sys_image, create a tar file and then move that file to another system and write it to tape.

See attachment for generating the tar file

SEP

[phani_3]

Hi Phelix,

I have gone thru the document which u suggested...i hope this will help me a lot.

Thanks to all for providing me valuble information.. :)

Regards,
Phani