seamless recovery from tape

[Jan Sladky]

hi all
I still can't do seamless recovery from Ignite via make_recovery_tape.

1. If I have made tape by make_tape_recovery without any parameters, during the creation proces this warning was displayed:
WARNING: The volume group /dev/vg00 will be only partially included in the System Recovery Archive.

After boot from this tape the /root/ /home/userX and userY,
and data from /opt are missing (all belongs to vg00)

2. if make_recovery_tape -x inc_entire=vg00 is used, creation is OK, but boot is accompanied
many ERRORS like this:
SOFTWARE OC-CORE.C-KRN WAS NOT found on host
"loopback:/"
but after end of reinstalation everything seems to be ok ( until now)

does anybody have some hint how to create the best recovery tape ? (best the tape which was already used for recovery in product enviroment)
thanks Jan

thanks all

[Naveej.K.A]

Hi jan,

my Ignite for the root:

make_tape_recovery -a /dev/rmt/0mn -x inc_entire=vg00

and it worked well w/o any problems. I even restored this twice (one time to a higher capacity hard disk)

#uname -a
HP-UX unix B.11.11 U 9000/800 1126454616 unlimited-user license

#swlist -l fileset |grep Ignite
# Ignite-UX B.3.6.82 HP-UX System Installation
Services
Ignite-UX.BOOT-KERNEL B.3.6.82 Installation Boot Kernel
for S700/S800 clients
Ignite-UX.BOOT-SERVICES B.3.6.82 Network Boot Services for
System Installations
Ignite-UX.FILE-SRV-10-20 B.3.6.82 File Archives Used By Cli
ents During HP-UX Install
Ignite-UX.FILE-SRV-11-00 B.3.6.82 File Archives Used By Cli
ents During HP-UX Install
Ignite-UX.FILE-SRV-11-11 B.3.6.82 File Archives Used By Cli
ents During HP-UX Install
Ignite-UX.IGNITE B.3.6.82 Graphical Ignite User Int
erface for Installations
Ignite-UX.IGNT-ENG-A-MAN B.3.6.82 Ignite-UX Manual Pages
Ignite-UX.MGMT-TOOLS B.3.6.82 Tools for Managing Data F
iles on an Ignition Server
Ignite-UX.OBAM-RUN B.3.6.82 User Interface Libraries
Needed for Older Systems
Ignite-UX.RECOVERY B.3.6.82 System disaster recovery
tools

with best wishes
Naveej

[Lorenzo Facello]

HI Jan,
usually I use
make_tape_recovery -AIv
A will rec all the vg
I will be interactive mode at the restore
v verbose

If you need to backup only vg00 type
make_tape_recovery -p
it makes a file flist under
/var/opt/ignite/recovery/latest
you can edit this and remove all that you want

I think you have also a patch problem...
verify this!!!! (check on patch db)

Hope this Helps

LF

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

what are the options you use for make_tape_recovery? i use,

# make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -I -v -a
in interactive mode when i boot using the tape.

regards.

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi Jan,

It is always hard to say what is the BEST way. I always go for:
#make_tape_recovery --x inc_entire=vg00 -I

It will make a backup of the servers vg00. And allows interactive restore. In some cases you would like to exclude some filesystems ( e.g. -x exclude=/home).

With messages like SOFTWARE.... it could indicate that there is a patch issue on your server. You could run a check_patches command. see man page for more info.

HTH,

Gideon