Make Recovery Tape

[David_594]

Everytime I try to make a recovery tape it start making it and then I get pax: volumn then a 1 is ready and you have to hit go or quit and it goes for every. Is there a problem or just using wrong command. I use make_tape_recovery -a

[Steven E. Protter]

Probably:

Your make_tape_recovery is looking for tape 2. It has probably exceeded the amount of data that 1 tape can handle.

If you are running this via cron, you are sol, because cron can't change tapes or respond interactively.

If however its run at the command line you might be able to put in a second tape and answer the prompt.

SEP

[Shaikh Imran]

Hi,
Are You Doing This :
BACKUP1:
1) To create a system recovery archive of entire root disk volume :
a) default tape device = /dev/rmt/0m
b) Load the tape
c) #make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00

A tape will be created without further interactions.

2)To create the complete system backup

a) Load the tape
b) make_tape_recovery -A

A Tape will be created without further interaction.You can boot this tape on your new system.


RECOVERY:

a) load the system recovery tape in the tape drive
b) boot the system
c) Interrupt the boot sequence to redirect it to the tape drive.
d) Cancel the non-interactive installation by pressing any key when given the opportunity.
e) Allow the installation process to complete.


If You are Doing Backup of Complete System than maybe Your tape is getting full.So,Pls
remove the existing and insert the subsequent tape.

Regards,

Imran Shaikh

[V.Tamilvanan]

Hi,

Try the below command it works for me very well.

#make_tape-recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -Iv -a /dev/rmt/0mn

Note: Tape drive is /dev/rmt/0mn.

[David_594]

Thanks for everyone who replied to me with the information. Changing the tape worked. I had never seen it ask me that before and wasn't sure.