ignite using more than one tape

[Tom Gore]

My ignite backup just went to a second tape. What can I delete or cleanup to get it back down to one tape?

Thanks

[Clemens van Everdingen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Try to check for core files or clean /var/adm/crash if anything there.
Exclude /tmp if it's to much filled with crap.
Run cleanup command to clean old patches.

Just some examples !

C.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Tom:

If you are in fact only incorporating vg00's standard logical volumes then you should be able to fit everything quite well on standard DDS2 or DDS3 tapes.

One thing you could do is run 'cleanup -c 1' [for 11.x systems] to reduce '/var/adm/sw'.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Ian Dennison_1]

it sounds like you have a lot of stuff in vg00.

My philosophy is that an Ignite of vg00 is designed to create the core OS and provide Backup Agents (OmniBack in our case) so that the Backups can then be restored.

If you are running a large /var (for patched files), try creating a separate mount point for /var/adm/sw. Perhaps move certain logical volumes off vg00 onto vg01? or exclude certain large mount points?

Share and Enjoy! Ian

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again) Tom:

In addition, remember that 'make_tape_recovery' has the ability to include and exclude selected directories and/or files. Thus, if you have application filesystems on vg00 (although I hope not), you could exclude these in making your recovery tape with the idea that you would restore these using a separate backup mechanism.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Tom Gore]

Thanks to all. One of the mount points got a little too large. It has been brought back down to managable size.