ignite

[hpuxhelp]

when I did swlist ..i saw that ignite is installed ...how do I check if it is currently doing backup...of course if the node is here I can tell...however it is at a remote site...
thanks
how do i also check which vg is it doing backup on???

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Do you have any cronjob set to run ignite to create make_tape_recovery tape or make_net_recovery to dump ignite image on lan?

-USA..

[RAC_1 · Accepted solution]

By default Ignite creates the recovery disk of vg00 only. In case you want to include other vgs you will have to use -x inc_entire=vg01 option.

In order to check you can use make_tape_recovery -p (preview) option.

Hope this helps.

[Pete Randall]

Ignite doesn't do backups "automatically" - you have to start the ignite process make_tape_recovery, make_net_recovery, etc. Either you have a cron job that does this or someone has to start it manually.

Pete

[Marco Santerre]

To verify if anything is being done (whether it is a cron job or any other means to start the make_recovery process), you can check in /var/opt/ignite/logs/makrec.log1 to see when the last recovery is done.

To find out what VG are currently backed up, you should definitely try and find the source of your scheduled job and see the command line passed to the make_recovery

[Pete Randall]

If you suspect that Ignite has been run, you can check under /var/opt/ignite/recovery/. When ignite is run it creates a manifest under a subdirectory named with the date of the ignite run.

Pete

[Bill Hassell]

First, make sure that the Ignite version is current. If it was installed from a CD, it is likely very old and may have problems with new hardware. To be sure, just download the latest version and install it on all your HP-UX servers.

As mentioned before, Ignite (and any other backup program) never run by themselves. As root, run the command: crontab -l

then look for make_tape_recovery. If it is not in crontab, there is no bootable backup being performed. Similarly, you should look at the crontab entries, if you do not see any other backup programs (fbackup, tar, cpio, omniback, etc) then no backup is being done at all.

Ignite is *NOT* a general purpose backup program, it is a vg00 recovery program. The tape is bootable so that a broken boot disk can be replaced and restored. The rest of the volume groups must be backed up with fbackup or a similar commercial backup program such as HiBack.

If you see make_recovery (not make_tape_recovery) then the system is using an obsolete version of the program and should be updated (download the latest version of Ignite) with make_tape_recovery.

[hpuxhelp]

ok..I think I might have lots of problems to recovery from the tape.... hopefully I am wrong...
most of the machine is on 10.20 os level and running 64 bits, however, when i look at all the fileset , it has B version instead of A....

Is this mean the backup of vg00 is completely not recovery because of the fileset version???
if so how do I fix this??