make_net_recovery question

[ES UNIX Team]

Hi all,

I would like to use make_net_recovery to backup
my UNIX systems. Can make_net_recovery create a bootable tape and load the system image in it?

Thanks for any info.

Willie Castillo
Willie_Castillo@carmax.com

[Clemens van Everdingen]

Hi,

Instead of make_net_recovery you have to use make_tape_recovery to create a bootable recovery tape from your system.

The command:

/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -a /dev/rmt/0mn -I -v -x inc_entire=vg00

C.

[harry d brown jr]

Ignite can be configured/used to backup all of VG00.

What version of ignite do you have installed? get the latest version and other information from here:
http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/index.html

You want to use make_net_recovery to backup servers to a "central" tape drive, or does each server have it's own tape drives?

live free or die
harry

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

If you want to make a bootable recovery tape of your server you want to use 'make_tape_recovery':

# make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -I -v -a /dev/rmt/0mn

Note that this will capture vg00 information. Ignite is not intended as a backup mechanism. Use another means ('fbackup', 'tar', 'omniback', etc.) to handle filesystems not comprising the non-OS vg00 set.

Download the latest version of Ignite from here:

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/download.html

Make sure to choose the version(s) appropriate for your server(s).

Ignite is installed with 'swinstall'. The process does not require a reboot and man pages (of course) are provided and worth reading. Additional documentation is available at the site URL above.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Kevin O'Donovan]

Hi Willie,

sounds like you want to backup images onto tape, but onto a remote tape drive?

One possibility, and I'm not completely sure this would def. work, but you could give the remote machines access to the central tape machine's tape drive (edit /.rhosts and add remote machine to it), and then use make_tape_recovery with the device as centralmachine:/dev/rmt/0m.

One thing I have noticed but haven't tried out, is when you have a client (without a recovery archive created) in an Ignite server GUI window, theres a create tape recovery archive option in the Actions menu, might be what you're looking for?

hope that helps,
Kevin.