test my back up

[jose luis_4]

hello to all.
I have a itanium RX1620 has following version UX B.11.23, Ignite c.6.7.79, I want to test my back up that makes it with make_tape_recovery. it is possible to make the boot from my tape?


Please let me know if it is correct and what any other thing I would need to boot from ignite tapes. Thanks a lot.


jose luis

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

On Itanium machines, you MUST boot from the HP-UX Installation DVD, then choose "Recover from Tape".

This is detailed in the Ignite/UX documentation.

Have a read through this section:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90970/ch09s05.html#d0e13988

The entire documentation library for Ignite is available here:

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/IUX/infolib.html

[Sameer_Nirmal]

There is no support for direct tape boot in IG-UX c.6.7.x. You need to follow the two step recovery using booting with DVD as mentioned by Patrick to test it.

In IG-UX c.6.8.x, the direct tape boot support is added for some Integrity Servers.
However, I don't see any advisory or doc at HP site which say it is supported on specified Integrity servers.

Take a look at the release notes of IG-UX c.6.8.x at
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/IUX/docs/Cver_release_note.html

These are the excerpts from the release notes.

Direct tape boot for Itanium-based systems with firmware support

Direct boot of Itanium-based systems from tape devices is introduced in Ignite-UX version C.6.8.x. Recovery tapes created by Ignite-UX now conform to the UEFI 2.0 boot tape standard as well as the ANSI Standard X 3.27 for tape labels.

The C.6.5.x (12/2005) version of Ignite-UX included tape format changes to help enable direct tape boot for Itanium-based systems. However, changes just prior to acceptance of the UEFI 2.0 standard required changes to the Ignite-UX recovery tape format. Therefore, tapes created using Ignite-UX versions C.6.5.x through C.6.7.x continue to be supported for two-step recovery, but will not work for direct boot from tape devices.

In order to use direct boot from tape, you will need an Itanium-based system or firmware upgrade which supports direct tape boot. Direct tape boot may not be supported with some I/O interfaces. Some Itanium-based systems may never have firmware support for direct tape boot.

Itanium-based system boot tapes include significantly more files than those created for PA-RISC systems. Support for the two-step media recovery process continues. Use of two-step recovery requires use of HP-UX installation or custom boot media containing matching Ignite-UX version boot content.