Check What is on recovery tape

[rana sarkar]

How to check when recovery was done on Old tape on which make_tape_recovery was done

[George_Dodds]

This is the proceadure I use on Itanium servers

Check if the is a tape in the drive

# mt -t /dev/rmt/0mn status

rewind the tape

#mt -t /dev/rmt/0m rew

skip past the boot sector

#mt -t /dev/rmt/0mn fsf 22

check the archive

#tar tvf /dev/rmt/0m > /tmp/ignite_tar.out

check the .out file ( Should contain the list of files on the tape )

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

If you boot from the tape you will see the date and hostname from which the system was created.

You could also (at least) assess the up-to-date-ness of the tape by running 'check_tape_recovery' to compare your running system with the tape. See the Ignite 'check_tape_recovery' manpages:

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/5992-5839/5992-5839.pdf

Regards!

...JRF...

[Md. Farhan A Azam]

Hi,

To compare contents of network recovery image to a running system.

#check_tape_recovery

plz visit the man page for more details about "check_tape_recovery".


Thnx...Farhan