ignite tape

[Kurtkarl]

HI,

I created an ignite tape using "make_recovery -ApvC -d /dev/rmt/0m" command. This tape contains all our in-house applications, our standard kernel configurations and patches we need in case I need to restore or build a new workstation. I always used this tape on every newly purchased workstations with same specs and model we have here.

Now, most of our newly purchased workstation does'nt have tape drive. So what I usually do is install an external tape drive in so we could use this ignite tape.

My question is, how can I copy this tape to any of our server (which eventually will be our ignite server) so that I dont have to install a tape drive on every workstation I'm trying to build or re-install? Which all I have to do is boot "boot lan" on this server.

Thanks in Advance.
Jose

[Patrick Wallek]

I do not know if you can make a copy of the tape to one of your machines.

What you can do is use the make_net_recovery portion of Ignite.

This is managed through the ignite gui.

I have used this with machines that already have HP-UX installed on them. What you could probably do is get the new machine on the network, assign an IP address to it and then use the Ignite GUI to reboot the machine and do a recovery. The GUI is really very slick.

[Elizabeth_2]

Hi Joey!

I haven't heard of that ever being done. I think that make_net_recovery (network based system recovery archive creation) would be the best way to go.