Make_tape_recovery

[John-Garrett]

We have a rp5470 with a Surestore Tape drive running HP Openview Dataprotector 5.1. We plan to add a second system either a rp3440 or a rp4440.

Both system's will be on a public nic and a private gigbit nic. The second system doesn't have a tape drive.

Does anyone know if we could utilize make_tape recovery from the rp5470 to do a system recovery on the second system.

[Patrick Wallek]

No. m_t_r does not support running to a tape drive on a remote system.

What you CAN do however, is use the system with tape drvies as an Ignite server. You can then do a make_net_recovery to the Ignite server and then take that archive and generate a bootable tape.

I think details on how to do that are in the Ignite/UX Admin guide.

[Michal Toth]

Patrick said it all.

btw. dataprotector and ignite-ux (mtr) are completely different products

[Wim Rombauts]

How far are these systems appart, physically.
If you take care not to initiate tape commands from both systems at the same time, you can connect the tape to both systems at the same time.
To do this, you will have to change the SCSI-address of the initiator in one server from the default 6 to, let's say, 5.
Both systems can then use the SCSI-devices ont the SCSI-bus. This is no issue at all for disks (we currently still use this setup for ServiceGuard disk storage). Tapes cannot handle simultaneous commands from 2 systems very well, but like I said, if you take care to use the tape from your rp3/rp4 system only when you are syre your rp5 system isn't going to use the tape, you are safe.

[John-Garrett]

We have several different sites. At some sites, the second system will be in the same cabinet with the first system. At the remaining sites, the second system will be in a separate cabinet. But, all of the systems will be in the same computer room at each site.