recovering software depot from tape to new system

[Eileen Millen]

Our 11.00 system with software depots for 10.20 and 11.00 failed. We setup an 11i system with the same name and IP address and have recovered the software depot directories from backup tape.
Is there a file in /var/adm/sw that we can recover that will let this system know where the depots are?
I am hoping that we do not have to swreg all of the depots.
Thanks,
Eileen

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

If you fire up
swinstall

you can tell it where the depot is.

Paula

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

Just edit the file; /var/adm/sw/host_object and add in your depots in the same format as exsiting ones there (if non swreg one so you can see the format).

[Eileen Millen]

Thanks Paula,
The problem is that we have a depot structure for 10.20 with all the HP apps, patches and third party software and have the same for 11.00. I would have to tell it about every depot path.
We have something like this
/depot/10.20/800/hp and nonhp and patches
/depot/10.20/700/hp and nonhp and patches
/depot/11.00/800/hp and nonhp and patches

under patches we have infastructure, oracle and
other specific application patches.

Eileen

[Stefan Farrelly]

After youve edited host_object restart swagentd to see them via swlist -l depot (sbin/init.d/swagentd stop then start)

[Eileen Millen]

Thanks Stefan,
The file is being restored from a backup.
If it works, it will save a lot of time.
This is likely an undocumented life saver.

Eileen