Ignite Recovery

[SSP_1]

Hi,

Yesterday I made a ignite recovery tape of one A-Class server and then booted the machine from it. It has done perfect recovery . But to my surprise it has also recovered /test and /test1 partitions which are in the same vg [root vg , vg00]. I believe ignite is meant for only recovering var, opt, usr., / , stand, etc partitions. I have prepared the tape with following syntax :-

make_recovery -A -C -v -d /dev/rmt/0m

Can someone pl explain me why it was so.

[Clemens van Everdingen]

Hi,

No !

If you use make_recovery -A all content of VG00 is backup up.

C.

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

Using those permissions, the archive being created will include the entire /dev/vg00 volume group. That is why you have also recovered /test & /test1.

It is always better to have a clean /dev/vg00 volume group containing only the necessary filesystems that you need. This is especially true if your going to deploy the archives across other systems.

HTH
-Michael

[SSP_1]

thanks......I got it........

[Clemens van Everdingen]

Hi,

Assign points then !

C.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Instead of using the deprecated 'make_recovery', use 'make_tape_recovery'. The later command allows you to specify the inclusion and/or exclusion of files and directories. The man pages for 'make_tape_recovery' detail these options.

Volume group vg00 can be archived with 'make_tape_recovery' with the following simple command:

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

Or, in your case, you could do:

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

Get the latest Ignite software and documentation here:

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

Regards!

...JRF...