Ignite questions

[Pieter_5]

Hi,

A few ignite questions

1) It is possible and save to run a make_recovery on a running system?

2) How can I check my backup without actually using it?

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

1 Yes it is possible, best would be a quit system.

2 You could check te tape as follows:

# mt -t /dev/rmt/0mn fsf 1

This jumps over the boot part

# tar -tvf /dev/rmt/0m > file.lst

This will list the tape contents into a file.

To check if the tape is bootable just try to boot from the tape !

Use this command to make the tape:

/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -a /dev/rmt/0mn -I -t "Make recovery of system `uname -n` on `date`" -v -x inc_entire=vg00

HTH,
Robert-Jan