What happens to earlier Ignite archives?

[jackie baron_1]

My ignite server is working nicely and I can do a make_net_recovery of a test system. I see the archives being copied to the /var/opt/ignite/recovery/archives/ directory on the ignite server.

I ran the make_net_recovery command and it created an archive with the timestamp, then I ran it again and it created a second archive. Then I ran it a third time and it created a third archive but once the third archive completed the first archive disappeared.

I thought it may have been moved to some kind of history directory but searching the server for the first archive yielded nothing. It appears to have been removed.

Is this normal? Is there a way to NOT have earlier archives removed? Is there a way to have it hold on to, for example, 5 archives and then remove earlier ones?

Thanks for any help.

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[sujit kumar singh]

hi Jakie,


this is normal .. there is a limit to the no of archives that u can keep for a proper client.

This however is configurable.


feel sorry for u earlier Ignite Server specially.

Regards
Sujit

[sujit kumar singh]

Hi jakie,


http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=555851


this discusses aboy a parameter that SAVE_NUM_ARCHIVE

in /var/opt/ignite/recovery/defaults file

Regards
Sujit

[jackie baron_1]

Thanks but there is no defaults file in the /var/opt/ignite/recovery directory.

Also there isn't one in the client recovery directory on the Ignite server.

[sujit kumar singh]

well


but i cannot find that file well on my system !!!!!!!!!

regards
Sujit

[sujit kumar singh]

hi


i can see the man page and that refers to the a defaults file in the /var/opt/ignite/clients/0xLLA/recovery/defaults. But these values are used while using make_net_recovery GUI as the manpage says but are overridden by the command line option.





also there is an option -n of nake_net_recovery

-n number_archives
Specifies the number of archives that should remain on the
server at any given time. The default is two (2). If

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make_net_recovery(1M) make_net_recovery(1M)

number_archives is two and there are already two archives
present when a third is being created, make_net_recovery
will remove the oldest archive after successfully creating
the newest archive.


u can see by using the -n option


regards
sujit

[sujit kumar singh]

Hi Jakie,


this is in response with ur question thread


http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1304038

Please have a look at the following thread and have a look at what V2KCOT has to say.


http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1304701

he has nicely described that very well


Sure that will be helpful.



Regards
Sujit

[sujit kumar singh]

hi Jakie,


for most of ur Ignite-UX questions u can follow has link ... this is a greta link for the System Engineers and Administrtaors working with Ignite-UX.


http://docs.hp.com/en/IUX/faq.html

Regards
Sujit

[Roberto Volsa]

Anyway, as per Ignite manual, the default number of client archives that are stored on the server is 2.
This explains why the first image you performed, disappeared just when you did make_net_recovery the third time.

If you want Ignite server store more than 2 images, you should use -n option on make_net_recovery