Ignite - list itanium tape files

[Joao Rei]

HI,

I've listed the contents of an itanium ignite tape:

mt -f /dev/rmt/1mn rew
mt -f /dev/rmt/1mn fsf 22
tar -tvf /dev/rmt/1mn

However the backup has two tapes. I've listed the contents of the first one.

Does anyone knows how to list the contents of the second tape?

Regards,

Joao Rei

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Joao:

For your second tape, I believe that you simply treat it as a normal 'tar' archive on a tape. That is, do _not_ skip the boot LIF since there is none.

This said, I would ascertain why your Ignite recovery tape requires multipe tapes. Ignite is intended for the restoration of vg00 and its standard HP-UX logical volumes. While you can include additional volume groups and/or directories, this is not desirable.

Ignite is not meant to be a data backup tool; rather it is intended for the recovery of a functional operating system only.

If you are using old tapes (e.g. DDS2 or DDS3) you may be unnecessarily constraining yourself if your vg00 contents are large.

Regards!

...JRF...