makrec.append

[JohnMuir]

Can someone please give me the correct format to set up the makrec.append file for ignite tape. I have never used it before but need to now to include one file system in a different vg.

Thanks

[David_246]

Hhm, could only find the following info.

To be honest doesn't sound very familiar to me.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xdca8e3ed7640d71190080090279cd0f9,00.html

Regs David

[John Dvorchak]

If you are using make_tape_recovery you can include any file(s) you like with the -x option. Let's say you want to backup everything in vg00 and include /oracle/stuff on the Ignite tape:

/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -v -x include=/oracle/stuff

man make_tape_recovery

you can include many dirs/files with multiple -x options.

Good luck.

[John Dvorchak]

If you have an old version of Ignite or you just want to use the outdated make_recovery then you have to have a makrec_append file to get stuff not in vg00.

From the man page on make_recovery:

** User Core OS **
file: filename
file: filename
file: filename
dir: dirname
product: productname
** User Data **
file: filename
file: filename
product: productname
dir: dirname

The headers ** User Core OS ** and ** User Data ** are fixed form.
The file, product, dir keywords indicate that portions of the OS can
be appended on a per file, directory, or productname bases. Files,
products names and/or directories included under ** User CORE OS **
are included in /var/opt/ignite/recovery/makrec.last, while file,
product, dir contained under the ** User Data ** portion are not
appended to /var/opt/ignite/recovery/makrec.last. The
/var/opt/ignite/recovery/makrec.last file is used by check_recovery.
Standard input


So your makrec.append file would look like this:

** User Core OS **
file: /oracle/stuff

Good luck.