make_recovery

[John de Villiers]

make_recovery has been superceded by make_tape_recovery and make_net_recovery.

make_recovery has a -C option to create a check file that check-recovery then uses to check if a new image is required.

How do i get the same/similar functionality with make_net_recovery and make_tape_recovery ??

regards
john

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

The short answer is: You Don't.

There is no equivalent to the make_recovery '-C' option is make_[tape|net]_recovery.

I was at an Ignite presentation about a year and a half or 2 years ago and they were saying then that make_recovery was going to be phased out in favor of of the make_[tape|net]_recovery commands which give your MUCH more flexibility.


From what I remember they did not recommend that the '-C' option be used anyway. It drastically slows down the make_recovery process and their view, and mine, was that if you think you might need to create another tape, then you probably do.

[Helen French]

Hi John:

You cannot use 'check_recovery' command to check the status of the last make_tape_recovery ! This command is valid only when -C used with make_recovery.

The make_tape_recovery gives you a more flexible solution to check the log files. You could find these files/directories under /var/opt/ignite/recovery. Check the link file 'latest' and it will be pointing to the latest ignite status log directory. You could find the time, date, status, error message etc. from the log files.

HTH,
Shiju

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi John:

You are correct that 'make_tape_recovery' is designed to supersede 'make_recovery' and does not have a check option.

In my opinion, the 'check_recovery' feature is superflous. Simply routinely recreate your recovery image on a routine basis and particularly after any configuration changes.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Wodisch]

Hi,

I can only guess that your use of "make_recovery" does include the option "-A" (all) - and then the "-C" is useless, for everytime some file is changed, your tape is out-dated, already, then!
I never saw the need in there, anyway...

Regards,
Wodisch

[John de Villiers]

Thanks for the quick replys guys.

I guess at the end of the day it comes down to procedures. Were a little undermanned and i was looking at a way of doing these things automagically so that we dont end up with a situation where we forgot to make an ignite before we applied patches or something.

Regards
John

[Mike_305]

Hi John,

I have been using "make_tape_recovery -AvI" this take me into GUI mode during install and allows to make any changes to cinfiguration.

Thanks,

Mike