Re: Load Online archives on other machine ?

Ian Macdonald (ikm@labsys.com.au) wrote: > Hello. > We are currently experiencing problems with creating & restoring > Online archives on one of our client's two machines. We are > thinking of reloading level 0 archives from both machines onto our system > to see if the tapes work, any differences can be found, etc. > Question: when reloading an Online archive, how far do we have to go > in duplicating the client's Online system ? It's fairly straightforward > to create their dbspaces and chunks in terms of the names involved, but > is it a name-based archive ? I seem to recall hearing that dd is used > which tends to suggest it just starts at point 0 and dumps everything. > If we have to duplicate names, device names, offsets, etc, we'll > have to think of something else (or hire a disk temporarily - yuck). -- Hi, in an article I've read the following hints for restoring: - never change the parameters TAPESIZE, TAPEBLK, LTAPESIZE, LTAPEBLK in the tbconfig file after a backup! - use symbolic-links for your tape-devices, you cannot change it after a backup - use symbolic-links for your online-chunks Hope that helps, Dirch +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dirch Scheer email: scheer@stadt-mh.de | | Amt 10-3 Tel. : +49 208 455 1006 | | Stadtverwaltung (snail-)Mail : Ruhrstr. 32 | | Muelheim an der Ruhr D-45468 Muelheim an der Ruhr | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Inspiration gave them the motivation to move on out their isolation | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+