make_tape_recovery using another tape drive

[Andrew Luis Arruza]

I need to do just what is in the subject.
I have been looking in the knowledge database and have gotten some ideas. Now I need to know just how to do this.
Any/all help greatly appreciated and, as always, I WILL assign points.
Wodisch gives the answer but I need some specific commands.
Really need help.
Thanks, Andy

[Michael Roberts_3]

By another tape drive to you mean one on the same system that isn't /dev/rmt/0m? If so:
make_tape_recovery -a /dev/rmt/[0-9]mn -A
where [0-9] is which ever other tape device you want to write to. Seems too easy, maybe I missed the point of the question.

[Wieslaw Krajewski]

Hi,

To use other than default tape drive use:

make_recovery -d /dev/rmt/suitable_dev -other_options

With no -d option /dev/rmt/0m is used.

Rgds.

[Andrew Luis Arruza]

Michael,
What I need to do is create the Ignite recovery tape on a server that has no tape drive. I only need to do this for a DR test and I have tape drives on other servers on the network. For the DR test they want a tape.

[Patrick Wallek]

The make_tape_recovery command does NOT allow you to do a make_tape_recovery command to a tape drive on a different system.

For make_tape_recovery the drive has to be local. You could do a make_net_recovery to do backup to a different system. This would create a file on the remote system though and would not go to the tape drive.

[Andrew Luis Arruza]

Patrick,
That is what I do now. I use make_net_recovery.
In this case what files would I need to put on the tape for Disaster Recovery? The DR people want a tape sent to them for our DR test.
Andy

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

I think I have found what you need.

Look in the directory /opt/ignite/share/doc

In that directory you should find a file called: makenetrec.txt

In that file there is a section that talks specifically about how to create a bootable recovery tape from an archive that was created with make_net_recovery. The section you want is titled "Creating a Bootable Archive Tape".