system recovery tape ??

[Amit Dixit_2]

Hi,
How to make a system revory tape ??
I have Ignite installed on my system
and make_recovery used to create tape.
But my problem is how this tape will work
when I have to recover from it
can anyboody explain ??
any script to backup and recover system ??

thanks
Amit

[Ivajlo Yanakiev]

First you must use make_tape_recovery
not make_recovery.

create backup on your VG00

make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00

If you want ot recovery from taht tape

Put tape in your Tape device
Reboot your server
Stop boot process and boot from tape

P.S Make_Tape_recovery tape is bootable tape.

[Borislav Perkov]

Hi,
You should make the recovery of whole volume group vg00 to be able to recover your system.
The command is:
make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00
The Ignite put first boot sector on your tape and after that it is doing tar of the all essencial files needed for recovery.
Most of answers on your question you can find:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=703579

Regards,
Borislav

[twang]

Download & install the latest version of ignite-ux:
http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/index.html

use the following code to make a system boot tape:
#!/usr/bin/sh
/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -Av -x inc_entire=vg00
exit_code=$?
echo "make_tape_recovery: exiting with status $exit_code"