Accessing Ignite images on Windows 7

[Gary Cooper_1]

For various reasons (don't ask), I want to access Ignite images from Windows 7.

I've hit 2 problems so far...

1. Accessing my Ignite image directory on my hp-ux machine across the network using Open Text NFS on my PC, I can navigate to the image directory, but it just refuses to see the image files - regardless of the permissions I give it.
   It appears to be related to the image filename , e.g. 2007-07-26,11:45.
   Anybody any ideas what's going on here?
2. So, I've managed to copy the image file from my hp-ux machine to my PC (by renaming the file).
   Does anyone know what format the image file is in, so that I can look inside it using a Windows decompression utility?

Many thanks,

Gary

[Torsten.]

The image is tar with a bootable header in front. It depends if the image is from a PA-RIS or Integrity system.

This is how you would access a TAPE:

RISC:

# mt -f /dev/rmt/_mn rew
# mt -f /dev/rmt/_mn fsf 1
# tar -tvf /dev/rmt/_mn

IA64:

# mt -f /dev/rmt/_mn rew
# mt -f /dev/rmt/_mn fsf 22
# tar -tvf /dev/rmt/_mn

or

# tar -tvf /dev/rmt/?mn | awk '{SZ+=$3};END{print SZ}'

[Bill Hassell]

The image files are in tar format that were gzip'ed before storing them on the Ignite server. You would have to find a Windows version of gzip/gunzip to decompress the files, then a Windows version of tar to look at the contents.

However, what would be the purpose? These are multi-GB files that will expand to at least 300-700% larger (a 2GB archive will expand to 6GB to 14GB). Then tar can show you the index of tens of thousands of files. There is no Windows Explorer to walk through the directories. And the binary files have little use on the Windows box, while the ASCII files will be a pain to read due to differences in line formatting.

You can use vi to browse the actual file list for each backup on the Ignite server.

The directory is

/var/opt/ignite/clients/<hostname>/recovery/<date>

and you'll see the file flist. That has all the filenames that were collected at that date.

[Dennis Handly]

>find a Windows version of gzip/gunzip to decompress the files, then a Windows version of tar to look at the contents.

>There is no Windows Explorer to walk through the directories

That's 7-Zip for all three.

>while the ASCII files will be a pain to read due to differences in line formatting.

vim or wordpad can handle newlines.

[Torsten.]

You can also try "total commander" and notepad++.

The commander can extract and even view the files.

[sapoguheman]

Are you trying to install HPUX through vmware :P