Ignite UX, How to update existing backup

[joinsiva]

Hi all,

Can anybody guide me how to use make_net_recovery to update the already existing ignite backup ?

Thanks !
Sivakumar P

[ankurp]

Hi siva,

Myself dont think we can do it.

rrgds
Ankur.

[Chauhan Amit]

Siva,

This is not a possible option with Ignite-UX , you will have to take a new Ignite Backup again after any changes being done to the system.

-Amit

[joinsiva]

Hi,

Thanks for your replies.. Let me wait for some more thoughts from other gems before closing the issue.. anyway, i took a full ignite backup again..

thanks
sivakumar

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

It is not possible with Ignite. Ignite uses either tar or cpio and both of them does not provide any such functionality. You can opt to backup using tar or cpio but incremental backup is supported using fbackup / frecover in HPUx and that is not supported for ignite.

HTH,
Devender

[Bob Ingersoll]

It can't be done.

Why would you want to "update the already existing ignite backup"?

If you just want to remove the space used by the "already existing" backup you have two options:

1) On the new backup specify the number of archives to keep (default is 2) using the "-n" switch (-n1 to keep just one backup).

2) Do this after you create the new backup: rm the unwanted archive in /var/opt/ignite/recovery/archives/ and /var/opt/ignite/clients/recovery. Then edit /var/opt/ignite/clients/CINDEX and delete the cfg clause for the unwanted archive.

[Bob Ingersoll]

woops -- 2) should have said /var/opt/ignite/clients//recovery and /var/opt/ignite/clients//CINDEX.