make-tape-recovery process

[Jeff Hagstrom]

I have 2 RP7410 almost identical. They both run HPUX 11.11 and but the control on the production box is a VA7200 and the controller on the DR box is a VA7100. The drives are twice as big on the productions box(72g), compared to the DR(36g)

Our internal drive on the production box had corruption, part of /var became unreadable. Printing stoped, sam stopped. My make-tape recovery tape from production didn't work that I took 1 month ago. I took another make-tape-recovery tape from the DR box on Monday and shipped here. Rebooted the box with a new hard drive and the new make-tape-recovery tape in the drive, create the vg00 and the logical volumes, lvol1 - lvol8, ok. After writing a bunch of stuff to from the tape to the hard drive it came up with this error:

ERROR: Cannot load OS archive (Recovery Archive).
The configuration process has incurred an error, would you like to push a shell for debugging purpose (Y/N)

I don't know what this is or what to do from here. HELP!

[John Guster]

Did you verify if the ignite tape image of DB box is good? (tar vft /dev/rmt/?? to verify)

[Torsten.]

What ignite version do you have? A current version?

Consider to use "check_tape_recovery" on the source system.

Did you interact with the installer?

[Adam W.]

Jeff, I would say judging by the error that your you don't have a good tape recovery. I am sorry to say that, but that is what it looks like. Check out the below it may help.


http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1159998

[Adam W.]

Basically the archive load on the tape seems to be corrupt or incomplete.

[Torsten.]

Well, the output and/or log of the tape creation would be useful ... any errors?

[Jeff Hagstrom]

This was the message at the end of the latest recovery log file in ignite on the DR box.
======= 10/06/08 15:23:51 EDT make_tape_recovery completed successfully!

Ignite-UX revision B.5.4.50 on the DR box.

Is it different on then production box? I don't know what version is on the production box.

[John Guster]

put this tape in any HP-UX machine which can read the tape, run tar vft /dev/rmt/?? to verify if the image is good.As many folks pointed out the image may have been corrupted, i.e. the tape is bad.

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Jeff:

Ignite version B.5.4.50 would date to about 2004 if I recall correctly. That's a mighty old version!

Since you said you made the tape from your DR server, I would fetch a current version of Ignite; install it; make a *new* recovery tape; and try that:

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/IUX/download.html

A disaster recovery server isn't any good unless you periodically practice using your recovery tools and techniques. Do you know that your current tape is even viable there?

Regards!

...JRF...