Verifying an Ignite tape?

[Kevin Bushman]

What's the preferred way to verify an Ignite-UX tape? We're doing an upgrade and I want to verify my ignite tape(s) before I blow away the O/S!

TIA

[RAC_1]

boot from tape and check.

Exit after it starts. Exit to shell and reboot your machine.

Anil

[Steven E. Protter]

The ONLY way to be sure is what RAC said.

But.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=468268

SEP

[Jeff Schussele · Accepted solution]

Hi Kevin,

As RAC implies, the only *sure* way is to totally restore a system with it. Not a very practical method, huh?

What I do is create TWO tapes & then check them both by:

1) mt rew #rewind the tape - if it's not /dev/rmt/0mn, you'll need -f /dev/rmt/Xmn where X=instance number

2) mt fsf 1 #This skips one file space - the LIF volume

3) tar tv #This should start listing all the files on the tape. If it gets through all of them you can be "reasonably" sure the tape is OK.

Rgds,
Jeff

[SS_6]

Best method is to test the tape on some test box.
Can list contents by using tar
make two tapes.
check logs under /var/opt/ignite/logs/

[Kevin Bushman]

Thanks all. Points will be awarded.

I thought there was a way to process to actually verify a tape, i.e., a command that would verify it, not actually booting from it. But the tar tv works just fine.

In any event. I got what I needed. Thanks again to all!

[Ragesh V.K]

Kevin,

You can verify the tape as below.

1. Check the tape contents by using below commands

mt â f /dev/rmt/0mn rew
mt â t /dev/rmt/0mn fsf 1
tar â tvf /dev/rmt/0m

This should list the contents in this tape.


2. Check whether the tape contains boot LIF contents. LIF contents must be present to boot the system through tape.

copy_boot_tape -u /dev/rmt/0mn -b -d /tmp/tape


It runs as below..

Rewinding tape /dev/rmt/0mn.
Extracting the boot area to /tmp/tape/bootimage.
14524+1 records in
14524+1 records out
Boot file contents.
volume ISL10 data size 281239 directory size 3 02/11/14 14:50:50
filename type start size implement created
===============================================================
ISL -12800 16 240 0 02/11/14 14:50:50
AUTO -12289 256 1 0 02/11/14 14:50:50
INDEX BIN 264 1 0 02/11/14 14:50:50
CONFIG BIN 272 34 0 02/11/14 14:50:50
HPUX -12928 312 880 0 02/11/14 14:50:50
INSTALL -12290 1192 26990 0 02/11/14 14:50:57
INSTALLFS -12290 28184 31744 0 02/11/14 14:51:03

Rewinding and ejecting /dev/r