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Lonny Balderston
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Ignite vs. make_recovery

Folks, what is the difference between Ignite
backup (make_tape_recovery) and make_recovery? I don't get it. The both backup vg00, and are bootable, and are for recovery. What else?

Thanks!
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Michael Tully
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Re: Ignite vs. make_recovery

make_tape_recovery is the new name for make_recovery.

make_recovery was the older version and name.

Using make_recovery will call make_tape_recovery anyway.

My suggestion is to use this format. It creates an interactive copy, really helpful if you need to make change to /dev/vg00

# make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -I -v -a /dev/rmt/0mn
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Jeff Schussele
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Re: Ignite vs. make_recovery

Hi Mahlon,

make_tape_recovery is the newer utility & will eventually replace make_recovery as the only bootable tape creation method.
It has more features than make_recovery & should be used instead of the older util.

Rgds,
Jeff
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James R. Ferguson
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Re: Ignite vs. make_recovery

Hi:

'make_recovery' is deprecated in favor of 'make_tape_recovery'. 'make_tape_recovery' is patterned after 'make_net_recovery' and it more robust than the old 'make_recovery'.

'make_tape_recovery' was added to Ignite in the A.3.2/B.3.2 releases of January 2001. See the Ignite release notes for more information:

http://software.hp.com/products/IUX/docs/release_note.html

To use 'make_tape_recovery' to create a tape archive for all of vg00.

# make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -I -v -a /dev/rmt/0mn

Don't confuse the '-i' option of the old 'make_recovery' with the '-i' option of its replacement, 'make_tape_recovery'. The '-I' option of make_tape_recovery is the *same* as the '-i' option of make_recovery. '-I' means cause the Ignite process to be interactive when booting from tape.

Regards!

...JRF...
Steven E. Protter
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Re: Ignite vs. make_recovery

make_tape_recovery and Ignite both use make_sys_image to build their backups.

if who watch what runs when you have a make_tape_recovery or make_net_recovery running, you'll see make_sys_image running with a particular set of options.

If you are building an ignite golden image, you run make_sys_image with a diffrent set of command options.

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T G Manikandan
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Re: Ignite vs. make_recovery

Ravi_8
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Re: Ignite vs. make_recovery


Hi,

make_tape_recovery is derived from make_recovery with additional features

make_recovery creates system recovery tape.
make_tape_recovery is tape based system recovery archive creation
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