Creating an Ignite Tape

[Jeffrey Sullivan_1]

What are the procedures to create an ignite tape..

[Patrick Wallek]

If you have Ignite/UX installed already you can do:

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

You must be sure to use a no-rewind tape device. In the command line above I have /dev/rmt/?mn. You must replace the ?mn with your appropriate tape device number.

If you do not have Ignite/UX installed you can get it here:

http://software.hp.com/products/IUX/download.html

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

THis is the command I use

/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -v -I -x inc_entire=vg00 -a /dev/rmt/0m -t "Recovery Tape for Feb 2004"

-I is for interactive mode during the recovery. Look at man page for more options.

-Sri

[Bryan D. Quinn]

Hello Jeffrey,

What I do is make a tape for each of my boxes to place in a disaster recovery box.
I place a DDS tape in the 0m drive and run the following command:

make_tape_recovery -A

Do a man on make_tape_recovery to see all the available options. By default the command uses 0m as the tape drive, but -a allows you to provide a different tape drive for creating the archive.

Hope this helps!
-Bryan

[Steven E. Protter]

#!/usr/bin/sh
/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -Av -x inc_entire=vg00

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