Why does Ignite backup to local machine first?

[jackie baron_1]

Hi,

I have an Ignite Server and I have registered a test client on it. Then I run make_net_recovery -s -x inc_entire=vg00.

The recovery archive kicks off but it says it is saving the archive on the local machine at /var/opt/ignite/recovery/arch_mnt

What is the purpose of that? It's going to need 26G of diskspace on the local machine to back ITSELF up???

Kind of defeats the purpose unless I'm really missing something.

Any enlightenment would be much appreciated.

j

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,
>>Why does Ignite backup to local machine first?
Its like read/write some data into your desktop's c:/ drive or access your network drive.

Suraj

[jackie baron_1]

So what you're saying is that the client copies its entire archive to itself before it moves it over to the Ignite server??

What happens then to Ignite clients whose vg00 is more than 50% full??

[Dennis Handly]

>What happens then to Ignite clients whose vg00 is more than 50% full?

I assume you tell ignite to put the temp files on a filesystem that has zillion of free bytes.

[Eric SAUBIGNAC · Accepted solution]

Bonjour Jackie

"The recovery archive kicks off but it says it is saving the archive on the local machine at /var/opt/ignite/recovery/arch_mnt"

/var/opt/ignite/recovery/arch_mnt is an NFS mount point to the ignite server. You can check it on the client, during make_net_recovery with "bdf" or "mount -p"

Eric

[jackie baron_1]

AHA!!!! Eric,

Now I see! Thanks.

j