Best practices Ignite

[Eli Daniel]

in this case is used make_net_recovery

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

automatic Ignite backup "by tapes"

as mentioned by <> you must make sure load tape before firing of the ignite backup.

hence had experience "/" file system has reached about "98 %" due to one of our operator forgot to load the tapes resulted in create very large file under /dev/rmt/

Automatic Ignite "for more than 2 Servers"
Best practice to setup Ignite Server

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

>>in this case is used make_net_recovery<<

Yes , You are right,

make_net_recovery -> for Ignite Server

make_tape_recovery --> for Ignite backup via tape

[Javed Khan_1]

Hi,
if you have software contract linked with your itrc account , search for software recovery handbook (ignite ux ) , this will give all info needed to setup and manage ignite ux
Javed

[Fabian Briseño]

Hello Eli.
from personal experience schedule your ignite backup in crontab, I have that way, ignite backup jobs run during bussiness off hours.

for example, I have this in a script.
/opt/ignite/bin/make_net_recovery -s mx45rt -A -n 3 -P s -x inc_entire=vg00 -x exclude=/SAParchives -x exclude=/usrtemporal

hope this helps.

[Eli Daniel]

thanks Fabian.
I will make with crontab
how often should be performed to ignite a server?
few ignite recommend storing files on server?

[Javed Khan_1]

Hi,

Once in a month should be a ok

Javed

[Fabian Briseño]

Hello Eli.
I run them once a month.

But according to best practices you should also run them before you modify kernel and install a patch.

Also I you setup a ignite server/client environment, ignite images take up as lot of space for example, I have a mixed environment of hpux 11.11 and 11.23 servers.

images for 11.11 server are about 4 to 5 GB

images for 11.23 are from 8 to 12 GB.

so take this into account

as recommended im only backing up vg00 (only O.S. related info), if you have anithing not related to O.S. in vg00 exclude like the example I given you above.

If you need anything else, let me know.


have a great day

[Eli Daniel]

Thanks