Is there anyway to do make_tape_recovery from single-user mode?

[MTSU_SAN]

I would like to do make_tape_recovery of vg00 from single user mode, so I can guarantee no one will be on the machine and the image will be current. Is there any way to do this?

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Jerry,

Mount the filesystems and try it.

# mountall

# make_tape_recovery .....

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Chris Xu]

Yes, I think you can, but you have to mount your filesystems manually.

[Nguyen Anh Tien]

Of course! you can.
first. make_tape_recovery is located at /opt. In single mode /opt is not mounted.
in order to run this script you must mount it first.
# mount /opt (or mount all)
and then
#make _tape_recovery.
Regard.
tienna

[Stf]

Yes, it's the best way to make sure a good tape recovery without error because all daemons are inactive...

But as they said you have to mount all your vg00 filesystems :

# moutall or # mount -a then

/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -Ad /dev/rmt/...
A : entire vg00 recovery
d : specify device...

Stf ;-)

[Bill Hassell]

Although mount -a will attempt to mount all filesystems, it will fail for NFS mounts. Use mount -a -l to limit the mountpoints to local. Note that make_tape_recovery uses /var, /usr and /tmp. However, MTR also requires all mountpoints for the specified backup scope (ie, VG00, perhaps others) to be mounted. MTR does some extensive checking for volume groups, mountpointd and filesystems before it proceeds.