make_tape bootable recovery tape

[Lacrosse]

last I heard you could only do this to a local DAT drive, is it possible to do this to another medium now i.e. CD or even a remote tape

Thanks for the help

[Tony Contratto]

You can also use "make_net_recovery" to create the image on another system on the LAN.

Then if you need to restore it later on, you can boot from the LAN and pull the image down.

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Tony

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

For a local tape drive, you can only use a DDS drive or some DLT drives. I have successfully used a DLT4000 in the past.

As said, you can also use make_net_recovery to write an archive file to another HP machine. I believe that there are ways that you can use this file to then create a bootable CD. BUT depending on the size of your archive, it may not all fit on a single CD, and I am not sure how you would go about spanning CDs with the archive.

[Ray Brewer]

If you are running HP-UX 11.0 or greater you can do a make_net_recovery. What this would do is create a recovery archive on your Ignite Server (assuming your Ignite Server is a separate system). You can then create a bootable tape using the make_medialif command that includes the archive file from there. See the man page from make_net_recovery and make_medialif.

Ray

[Patrick Wallek]

I missed the part of the question about remote tape. There is no function of Ignite that will use a syntax like remote_machine:/dev/rmt/?mn like you can with fbackup.

Again, you have to use make_net_recovery. The is a file in /opt/ignite/share/doc called makenetrec.txt that talks about the use of make_net_recovery and also gives the procedure to create a bootable tape from the make_net_recovery file.

[Michael Tully]

Check this document for "Creating Your own Install Media". This document also includes information on CD media.

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90765/B2355-90765.html

[Tracy_5]

It is possible to do this to CD now but not to remote tape.

[Patrick Wallek]

Short answer - No

You would have to create the CD manually after creating the make_net_recovery image.

HP has no built-in support for writing to a CD. There is 3rd party software that will run on HP-UX that allows you to write CDs.

See Michael Tully's link. I believe there is information there on creating a CD from a make_net_recovery image.