Ignite and tape library?

[Nitsulenko Sergey]

Hello!
HP-UX 11.0, OmniBack 4.0, Ultrium Library, IgniteUX.
Hou create recovery tape by IgniteUX for this server? How system is determined what tape to take from library during create recovery tape or installation?
Thank's.

[Patrick Wallek]

You would have to script something and use the 'mc' commands to tell the library to pull a tape from one of slots and insert it in the drive.

Ignite/UX by itself does not have any knowledge of tape libraries, nor does Omniback have any knowledge of Ignite/UX.

In my opinion your best bet would be to buy a stand-alone tape drive that you use for your Ignite/UX backups. If you use your tape library you run the risk that you will overwrite one of your Omniback backup tapes, which I don't think you want to do.

[TwoProc]

I don't believe that you can make recovery (make_recovery) with Omniback. You *can* make a recovery tape to any tape drive in the library - if the drives are either LTO, or a DDS variant. I don't believe that you can make recovery tapes a to a DLT (that's what I've been told - however, I've not tried it myself). I was told that the DLT's seem to be missing the ability to act as a boot device.

If you make a recovery tape in the library - you'll have to make the tape unavailable to the rest of the library - meaning you'll probably have to remove it. Otherwise Omniback *may* grab it and use it. That *shouldn't* happen because, it won't be formatted as an Omniback tape, but hey, if it's a system recovery tape - why take a chance (that's just my two cents). In which case, you'd be better off just using the DDS drive that came with your system. But, certainly you can just run the make recover command off to the tape drive (e.g. /dev/rmt/8n) that you put the tape into - using either "mt" or "uma".

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

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

The '-a' flag's argument signals which tape device to use.

Regards!

...JRF...

[uspfoms]

This will work, I've used it.
Create Ignite pool in omniback
add a few new tapes and format them, eject tape then manually load using control panel if library says secure and will not load power off and back on then it will let you load tape into drive.Logon as root run make_tape_recovery -I -v -x inc_entire=vg00.

The Ignite pool is used for tape tracking only eject ignite tape and store outside of library. During recovery manually load (see above) then
boot from the drive.

[Nitsulenko Sergey]

Thank's.

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,
It is no reason to create an Ignite pool and format media in OmniBack if you are going to use this media with Ignite. Ignite will overwrite the OmniBack media header and OmniBack don't recognize this medias as OmniBack medias any more. In worst case OmniBack will handle the medias as "Unknown" and, perhaps, overvrite the Ignite Backup.
If you are going to use the library both for Ignite and OmniBack, reserve some library slots for Ignite. If the library has 30 slots, configure the library in OmniBack to use (for example) slot 1-27. If you do this OmniBack don't have access to the remaining slots (28-30). You can use this slots for Ignite backup if you use the library front panel control (or web gui) for loading/unloading media.