Problems with restore from make_tape_recovery

[Arne Hillestad]

I have for test purpose of disaster tried to restore a HPUX 11.00 system with booting from the Ignite tape.

Result is that the system is without a functional NIS NFS and MAIL (and maybe many more) and for example files like /var/yp /var/mail is missing

Command used for backup:
make_tape_recovery -a tapedrive

during backup some warnings messages was issued that not all of the files in vg00 was backed up.

How do I avoid building the system up from scratch?
Should I have used the: -l inc_entire=vg00 parameter ?

[MarkSyder]

I would recommend using the GUI version of ignite. That way you get a visual display of which filesystems in vg00 are selected and which are not. You can then manually select any that you want to back up.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Cesare Salvioni]

Last thing is right.
Default is to tar on tape only the minimum to have a system running, if u want to backup all vg00 you must explicity indicate it.
You can use option:
-A to backup ALL vg00
-x inc_entire=vg00 same as before
-x inc_entire=/dev/dsk/c2t5d0 all on specified disk

Hope it helps

[Naveej.K.A]

u went wrong somewhere!!!!!!!!!


make_tape_recovery -I -x inc_entire=vg00

creates the recovery archive with full backup of vg00. I is for interactive restore.

You are probably using the options with make_recovery. both have different command options. Hope this helps

with best regards
naveej

[Jan Sladky · Accepted solution]

hi,

default make_tape_recovery does backup of: /dev/vg00/lvol1 /stand /dev/vg00/lvol3 / /dev/vg00/lvol7 /usr

if you desire backup entire vg00, use the
make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg01
or
make_tape_recovery -A

if you want also backup another vg try:

make_tape_recovery -a /dev/rmt/0mn -A -v -x inc_entire=vg01

hope this will helps you

br Jan