Ignite backup in remote server

[ganzsp]

Hai,
I need to take OS backup of server A which doesnt have a tape drive,
I have planned to share the vgoo volme's FS with server B and mount it in server B and take the backup. Is this possible.
Please guide me as i'm not familiar in this.
In server A
# exportfs -i -o ro=serverA:serverB /
else
# share -F nfs -o ro=serverA:serverB /
In server B
#showmount -e serverA
# mkdir /d
# mount serverA:/ /d

Please correct this one, i do know this is wrong
# make_tape_recovery -I -x inc_entire=vg00 -a /dev/rmt/0mn

looking forward for some immediate response.

Thanks
Ganzsp

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

"sharing" the boot disk of server A with server B in any way will not give you a valuable result with ignite backups.

Just consider to install and set up ignite server on server B and backup A via network.

e.g.

server_A # make_net_recovery ...

[Safarali]

You can configure your server b as ignite server and you can do the ignite backup
SAM has the option to make the ignite server
there you can also define the clients

Regards
Safar

[ganzsp]

hai i got it have installed ignite ux.
Please can anyone let me know how to mount the server in another server.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Sharing of tape drives is simply not a feature of the OS.

You can not write to a tape drive on machine a from machine b.

Serviceguard seems to have some tape sharing features, but I've never used them.

Best thing to do here is use make_net_recovery and put the images on a NFS share. Recovering systems backed up this way is fairly straightforward.

SEP

[ganzsp]

hai all thanks i have done with this using make_tape_recovery. :)

[Safarali]

Hi
Ganzsp if you are happy with any solutions please provide the points it will make encouragment to provide more help to others


Regards
Safar

[Torsten.]

Very well.

Now please read this too:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33

[ganzsp]

done