copying make_recovery tape

[Jim Smith]

How can I make a duplicate backup copy of an ignite tape made with make_recovery ?

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

use the ignite command; copy_boot_tape

[Ken Scharpell]

You can use copy_boot_tape to either copy tape to tape (if you have 2 tape drives) or copy it to disk first, or in case you need to extract something from it.

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

make_recovery writes two thing to tape:
first a bootable image
second a tar archve of the vg00 data

Here my suggestion:
change to directory that has enough free space.
then copy from tape to fs:
dd if=/dev/rmt/0mn of=boot.img bs=2k
dd if=/def/rmt/0mn of=data bs=10k
Change the tape and then copy from fs to tape:
dd if=boot.img of=/dev/rmt/0mn bs=2k
dd if=data of=/dev/rmt/0mn bs=10k

Not really sure if the bs=# values are right.
Maybe somebody else knows the correct block sizes.

Regards

[Manju Kampli]

use copy_boot_tape command to do this. see man copy_boot_tape for more options

[박수정]

hi!

1. Make boot infomation create without
actually creating the tape

#make_recovery -A -p

2. make two recovery tapes

#make_recovery -r -d /dev/rmt/0mn