Ignite-UX make_recovery to another severs tape drive?

[Peter A. Berger Jr.]

Hello all, I am new to HP-UX so please bear with me.

Is it possible to use Ignite-UX to perform a make recovery tape but to use the tape drive on another HP server on the network to store the image?

Many thanks!
Peter A. Berger Jr.

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

The short answer is: You Can't!

What you can do is create a network recovery (make_net_recovery) to the machine that has the tape drive attached and then you can create an image onto tape from the make_net_recovery image file. For more information see the file /opt/ignite/share/doc/makenetrec.txt. In that file are instructions on how to create a bootable recovery tape from a make_net_recovery archive. The section heading is: Creating a Bootable Archive Tape

[Patrick Wallek]

By the way, if you do a search (click on the blue 'search' word on the left) and put in the words "ignite remote tape" (without the quotes and don't forget to check the box next to "Community Forums") you will get numerous threads that deal with exactly this issue.

[Steve Tasker]

With Latest Ignite-UX utility (Version B.3.4.115 ) it is possible to take recovery type from one server and use it in another to boot it.
We did recovery testing at Sungaurd. We took ignite-ux tape from N-class server and use it in K-class server to build it. Intially we got some warning messages other that that we did not have any problems.
BUT The system you are recovering with ignite-ux tape should not be on same network as the server you used to create ignite-ux tape.

Have fun..

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Peter,

You can try this link,

http://support1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000045744912

The document is also available as part of the ignite software. The path to this doc on your system is /opt/ignite/share/doc/makenetrec.txt

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Peter A. Berger Jr.]

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