Restore a file with make_recovery

[RAKOTOARISON]

Dear all,

I need a help.
Can someone tell me How I have to do to
restore a file with a backup doing with
make_recovery?

When I do
mt -t /dev/rmt/0mn fsf 1
I take a error message

Thanks in advance

[Jose Garcia Gavilan]

What kind of error?
What kind of DLT?

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

Hi,

make_recovery is not a convention backup procedure. It uses pax to archive system configuration information on tape, with the point of recreating them on recovery.
Look for your last good backup and resore the file.

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Ignite's make_recovery is not intended to make standard backup tapes. However you should be able to extract (with tar) a file by doing the following.

# mt -t /dev/rmt/0mn rew
# mt -t /dev/rmt/0mn fsf 1
# cd /tmp
# tar tar xvf /dev/rmt/0mn the_file_to_recover

...JRF...

[Maarten van Maanen]

Hi,

Afaik you cannot restore a file from a recovery-tape. A recovery tape is ment to be booted from to restore your file-system and settings on your system in case you hardware has failed or you have (major) problems with your boot-drive and/or volumes.
To restore specific files you have to use your standard backup-tapes, created with tar, fbackup Omniback or other backup software.

[Jose Garcia Gavilan]

Hi Maarten,
make_recovery is not designed to be used as a backup tool, but you can recover a file as James explained. I have done it once, and i had some problems, because the tape wasn?t right. That?s why i asked RAKOTOARISON for the error.

Regards

[Rick Garland]

Using the mt command and tar or pax you can restore a file from the make_recovery. There are previous posts that detail how this is done.

It sounds like it should be emphasized, the make_recovery is not a backup tool. Use it for vg00, the root area only.

[Wodisch]

Hi,
shouldn't you use "mt -f /dev/rmt/omn fsf 1" on HP-UX 11.00? Not "-t"!
Wodisch

[RAKOTOARISON]

Hi all,

Many thanks for your reply.
The problem is fixed by the solution
given by James R. FERGUSON

Thanks