Make Ignite to tape on another server

[Fernando Boza]

I can make Ignite fron server1 to tape on Server2?

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

Practically not feasible,

if you could de-attached the tape-drive from server2 than attach to server you perform the Ignite

or

you need look for Ignite_Server setup / Installation

Thanks,
Johnson

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

sorry typ0 error i missed

attach to server1 you perform the Ignite backup,

Thanks,
Johnson

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,

Yes you can, you can take Ignite backup from one server and you can restore into another, while restoring choose advance option.

Suraj

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

Hi Suraj K Sankari ,

see below his requirement
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>> can make Ignite fron server1 to tape on Server2? <<

he is not mentioning anything about restore ..?

[Fernando Boza]

is dangerous disconnect and connect SCSI cable?

[Pete Randall]

It is not recommended, but, as long as there is no I/O going on at the time, I've never had any problem doing so.


Pete

[Fernando Boza]

there are any cable SCSI for minimize it posible problem?

[Pete Randall]

It's pretty easy to tell if there is activity on the tape drive or not: if the light is blinking, it's probably not a good time to try this. If the light is not blinking, it is very, very unlikely that you will have any problems.

No, there is no special SCSI cable that would prevent problems.


Pete

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

Hi Fernando Boza,

there are any cable SCSI for minimize it posible problem?

NO

if you could give some more (info) about the Server --> which has tape drive attached
would be much better to suggest to your Question

Example:-
model

ioscan -fnC tape --> out put

Server --> which d'not have tape drive

model

Thanks,
Johnson

[pa8700]

Sure boss give rlogin accesss to other host where tape is connected, through rhosts foe user equivelacy.then give the tape path as

destinarionhost:/dev/rmt/cxtxdx

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

Hi >> pa8700 ,

his requirement to perform a "ignite backup"

not file copied , have you tried "Ignite" / make_tape_recovery using rlogin method,.?

Thanks,
Johnson,

[Patrick Wallek]

>>Sure boss give rlogin accesss to other host >>where tape is connected, through rhosts foe >>user equivelacy.then give the tape path as

>>destinarionhost:/dev/rmt/cxtxdx

That only works for 'fbackup', NOT for Ignite.

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

Unless your tape drive can be removed and connected to server1, the task is meaningless. You can't send the data from Ignite from server1 direct to server2's tape drive, but you can use the network feature in Ignite to send the image to server2. Then you can restore server1 from server2 over the network. You'll need extra disk space on server2, at least as much as you have used in vg00 on server1 (always better to have multiple copies though).