Ignite backup tool usage

[siva3492]

Hi friends,

Can i use ignite tool to take a backup and store it in a particular directory.

I tried a command 

make_tape_recovery -P s -x inc_entire=vg00 -a /alarm/back -m tar

My installed ignite software version is

swlist | grep -i ignite
  IGNITE                                                C.7.3.148      HP-UX Installation Utilities (Ignite-UX)

And i got an error

ERROR:   This is not a character special device.
ERROR:   Check tape device failed.

 Please help me to overcome this issue.

Thanks in advance

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[Torsten.]

Ignite expects a tape drive or server as a target.

[Bill Hassell]

Ignite/UX is a bare-metal recovery program, not a general purpose backup program. Saving a bare-metal backup as a file is useless when your boot disk has been replaced. You have to restore the boot disk, which is exactly what make_tape_recovery will do but it requires a bootable tape.

There is also make_net_recovery which allows backup and recovery from another HP-UX system over tyhe network. Without an Ignite backup, bare-metal recovery would require the install DVD, a set of patches, a map of your filesystem layouts and then a restore of data application and data files.

[Torsten.]

If you have a single server without a tape drive you may consider to use a clone of the OS using "drd clone".

[pradeep m · Accepted solution]

you have to use make_net_recovery command instead of make_tape_recovery to backup to a ignite server or archive server.
You need to specify the ignite-ux server and archive server:server while running the command.
Refer the make_net_recovery man page for more details.