Creation of a recovery tape with files generated by make_net_recovery

[Augusto Vinhaes]

Hi all !
I'm using the make_net_recovery command to backup the os of a unix box. I'd like to know if it's possible to generate a recovery tape with the files generated by make_net_recovery because the unix box will be moved to another site (another different network) and it doesn't contain a tape drive (but it will contain in the future).
Regards: I cannot use the make_tape_recovery.
Thanks,
Augusto

[Patrick Wallek]

Yes it is possible. Instructions for this are given in the file /opt/ignite/share/doc/makenetrec.txt

View that file and look for the section titled "Creating a Bootable Archive Tape".

[Augusto Vinhaes]

Hi Patrick !
I've already done what is mentioned in the Ignite doc, but I got a check sum error when I try to read the tape (tar tv).

mt -t /dev/rmt/0mn fsf 1
tar tv
(I got a checksum error)

I think the procedure is not correct.

Regards,
Augusto

[Ermin Borovac]

Assuming that you ran dd with obs=10k, please try

# mt -t /dev/rmt/0mn rew
# mt -t /dev/rmt/0mn fsf 1
# dd if=/dev/rmt/0mn bs=10k | tar tvf -