Particular FS Restoration from IGNITE Tape

[Arun Jain]

Dear All,

I need to restore some data from Ignite Backup (taken with make_tap_recovery -AIv command) tape to a mount point. But unable to do the same.
Following are the steps I followed :
#mt rew
#mt fsf 1
#cd /restore
#restore>tar -xvf /dev/rmt/0mn /

After this this command took almost 15 minutes but no data was restored.

Please suggest :
Regards :
Arun Jain

[Dennis Handly]

>tar -xvf /dev/rmt/0mn /

You need to use "tar -tvf /dev/rmt/0mn" to see the format.
I think you need to use "./".

[Torsten.]

Any messages on the screen?

Is this a HP9000 or Integrity server?

# model

will tell you.

[Arun Jain]

Dear Dennis / Torsten,

Dennis : What format exactly you are talking about.
I understand this command but format I am not getting.

Torsten : Their are no error messages on the screen. After sometime prompts return back.
model is : 9000/800/rp3440

Plz suggest ;
Regards

[Dennis Handly]

>I understand this command but format I am not getting.

The format of the paths of the files. If you used -tvf, you would already know that by now.
If the files start with "/", as you used with -xvf, you wouldn't be able to extract them in /restore, unless you used "pax -s".

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Ignite was not designed for single file system restoration.

You can do this by using your method above and extracting the files you want to a temporary storage area and then copying them to the target restore area.

A real backup policy uses Ignite to back up the system boot disk and volume group and other more friendly tools to backup and recover data file systems.

You can do this but you are using the wrong tool for the job here.

SEP