Re: Ignite

From: Kevin Collins (spamtotrash_at_toomuchfiction.com)
Date: 05/19/05 

Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 20:21:49 GMT

In article <tvop81dgi1hkj8a0ver4vp671ho79us11p@4ax.com>, Robert Klute wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2005 12:31:54 +0200, Florian Anwander
><spam.interessiert.nicht@mnet-online.de> wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>it depends on what you are saving; ignite allows everything from full
>>backups of the complete storage setup down to minimum-required-to-live
>>tapes (the latter is the default). If you use the (minimal) default,
>>Ignite usually requires a littlebit more than 2GB.
>>
>>But(!): most people are a kind of "disappointed", when they realize what
>>is missing, after they restored a default ignite tape (no printers, no
>>addon software,....). I usually recommend to use make_tape_recovery with
>>the option:
>>
>>-x inc_entire=vg00 -x exclude=/home
>
> In addition to /home, I exclude /opt, /var/adm/sw, and /var/adm/crash
> when I do a make_tape_recovery. These can be big and tend to be stable
> directories, so are best restored from backups, as opposed to being
> recovered. I find it is best to keep the recovery tape as small as
> possible, but still complete enough to be really functional.

Depending on what you have installed, you might really want to include /opt.
You may require software under /opt at boot time...

>>It will recover really your complete root-volumegroup, but only the home
>>is excluded (home usually contains the most data, and usually home is
>>backuped separately). This assumes of course, that every installed
>>application-binary and configuration is in vg00, all application data
>>are located in other volume groups.
>>
>>
>>
>>Florian
>>
>>c0re wrote:
>>
>>> How can I tell how many tapes i need to create an ignite backup? what
>>> partition or path should i check?
>>>
>
>
> Robert Klute.
> These opinions are all mine, as always; HP might not want them anyway...
>

Kevin 

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