makeing recovery tapes using ignite-ux

[Raji Murthy]

We have several unix servers. I am making recovery tape individually make_recovery tapes.
Now I got one server without a tape drive.

Does anyone has better procedure to make these tapes? And also can I use a remote tape drive to do the recovery tape of the one server I have without a tape drive?

Thanks

[Sandip Ghosh]

You have to create a Ignite Server where you can take make_net_recovery. This Server should have enough space. You can take the make_net_recovry for all those Server who doesn't have any tape drive and you can recover from that Server if rquired.

Alternate way is to buy a external Drive and to connect to the respetive servers when required. In that case you have to have the stape driver in the kernel of those servers.

Sandip

[Rui Soares]

Hi!

You can use the make_net_recovery command that comes with Ignite.

Please refer to the man page; basically it needs extra arguments so you can provide a server where to put the system image.

Good Luck!

Rumagoso

[eran maor]

Hi

you can use a dd command to copy your system to a diff. disk if you have a problem of failover of the system disk .

another method is to use the make_net_recovery , you need to define an ignite server and to do the backup of the system to a storage on the ignite server .

you can also do an image of an ignite and burn it on a cd but this is a very long prod. how to do it .

you can go to www.docs.hp.com to get info about how to use ignite , read this issue about this a ignite backup frew the net .

when you want to boot the server without the tape driver you just need to connect the server to the lan interface and then do boot frew the lan .

[pap]

Hi RAji,

1.There is no way to take Ignite tape archive if the machine is not having local tape drive connected to it.

2. If you have external tape drive, then you will do like this.

make sure that "stape" drive is configured in to kernel. You can check this by following command.
# cat /stand/system | grep stape

if it is there then you can plug the external tape drive in to machine (with machine online , no need to reboot the server keep in mind that the power supply to tape drive is OFF). Once all connections are fine you can turn on the tape drive power. Now you are ready to use it for Ignite tape archive.

3. You can Load ignite-UX in any of the server which has lot of disk space available. Treat the server as ignite server. Add client your machine as client in it and you can then take make_net_recovery for that machine.
For accessing ignite GUI you need to enter
following at root prompt.

#ignite


Hope this helps.