How could I do only a make_recovery of system's filesystem from vg00?

[Carme Torca]

Hi,

I have vg00 with:
dev/vg00/lvol3 147456 48607 92687 34% /
/dev/vg00/lvol1 95701 31748 54382 37% /stand
/dev/vg00/lvol8 2097152 643369 1362970 32% /var
/dev/vg00/lvol7 1048576 616493 405100 60% /usr
/dev/vg00/lvol9 12582912 6197836 6185548 50% /users
/dev/vg00/lvol4 409600 41969 345383 11% /tmp
/dev/vg00/lvol6 753664 359985 369112 49% /opt
/dev/vg00/lvol5 32768 13268 18318 42% /home
/dev/vg00/lvol12 10485760 10091004 382512 96% /disc1
/dev/vg00/lvol14 950272 9756 881791 1% /export
/dev/vg00/lvol10 4194304 499432 3464003 13% /dskcopia31
/dev/vg00/lvol13 10485760 9287966 1160398 89% /disc2

And I only want to do a make_recovery of system's filesystem.
Where I have to put this?, is there any file?
Thanks!
Carmen.

[Stefan Farrelly]

You need to use make_recovery to make a bootable ignite tape of VG00 only using this command;

/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -a /dev/rmt/0mn -I -v -x inc_entire=vg00

[RAC_1]

First check you have latest ignite installed.

Check -x option.

make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -a /dev/rmt/0mn

[Zigor Buruaga]

Hi,

Looking at the "make_tape_recovery" man page, to exclude directories use:

-x exclude=/your_dir

in the command line.
But not sure if that is what you are asking.

HTH
Kind regards,
Zigor

[Bernhard Mueller · Accepted solution]

Carmen,

I understand you only want to put "pure UNIX" into the recovery archive.

If that is what you want you can e.g. include all the vg00 *and* exclude the filesystems on lvols 9, 10, 12, 13 14
(btw, is lvol11 used as swap?)

e.g.
make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -x exclude=/disc1 -x exclude=/disc2 -x exclude=/dskcopia31 -x exclude=/export -x exclude=/users -I -a /dev/rmt/0mn

guess you get the idea.

Regards
Bernhard

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

If you want to create ignite tape for the VG00 you should first install ignite software which free and available at the site given below

You can then run make_tape_recovery command to save this important file system.

/usr/share/doc had more information on ignite and recovery. also do a man make_tape_recovery for various examples.

command for make_tape_recovery:
/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -a -I -m tar -t "$(uname -n) title for system recovery tape" -v -x inc_entire=vg00

And ignite software is available here:

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

-USA..

[Carme Torca]

I would like to do a make_recovery only of:

/
/stand
/var
/usr
/tmp
/opt
/home

and I want to exclude
/users
/disc1
/export
/dskcopia31
/disc2

[Bernhard Mueller]

Carmen,

that is what I assumed. So you can use the syntax with the -x inc_entire=vg00 plus multiple -x exclude=MOUNT_POINT arguments.

This will (in case you need it) recover a running UNIX system with *empty* filesystems mounted on /disc1 /disc2 etc.

Regards,
Bernhard

[Bernhard Mueller]

Carmen,

to clarify: you need to use make_tape_recovery. The *old* make_recovery command does not have the flexibility to include/exclude with these -x options.

IF you ABSOLUTELY MUST use make_recovery, then your only choice is *not* to use -A but instead fool with the /opt/ignite/recovery/mnr_essentails file to include lines stating /opt /var /home /tmp at the end of the file.

Regards,
Bernhard

[Patrick Wallek]

You need to do the following:

# /opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -a /dev/rmt/?mn -I -m tar -v -x inc_entire=vg00 -x exlucde=/users -x exclude=/disc1 -x exclude=/export -x exclude=/dskcopia31 -x exclude=/disk2