make_reqcovery tape

[Jeff Hagstrom]

How do you make a make_recovery tape and what does it actually backup?

[Sanjay_6 · Accepted solution]

Hi Jeff,

The command "make_recovery" is used to create a ignite backup of your operating system.

The command you can use is
make_recovery -Avi

This will backup the complete OS on /dev/vg00. If you take a ignite backup in this manner and you are required to reinstall using this tape, you will not be required to reinstall the other packages you have on your system as on the date the ignite tape was created.

hope this helps.

thanks

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Jeff:

For makeing an Ignite recovery tape using 'make_tape_revovery' and including all of vg00 (including with 'vgxport'/vgimport' mapfiles!) do:

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

The '-I' option causes the subsequent use of the tape to be interactive.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Neil Harris]

A minor point is you need to have ignite on your system. If its not there its on disk 2 of the current application cd set use swinstall to install it. You will find the executeable in /opt/ignite/bin. Also if you use make_recovery include the -C option as well. You can then use check_ recovery app to assure your self of its integrity. Yo can also do a dd if=/dev/rmt/0m of=/tmp// bs=2k then run lifls on to check the lif integrity.

[jt yang]

The make_recovery command is only backup root vg!!! but you can move usr lv to other vg,
in this case, make_recovery will backup root vg& the vg contain /usr lv.

to backup all root vg,do
# make_recovery -A -C

after the backup finish, check /var/opt/ignite/logs
to confrim the logs report backup complete.

the make_recovery command will be replaced
by make_tape_recovery, the new command
allow you to use a menu way to select what
you want to backup, I think it is more
convenient that make_recovery

best regards.