Ignite-UX Reference (March 2010, B3921-90005)

copy_boot_tape(1M) copy_boot_tape(1M)

required if the tape contains variable size records, however if the records within a ﬁle in the tape are ﬁxed

or are in decreasing order, then the option may be safely ignored to take advantage of the improved perfor-

mance. This option is not required to copy tapes created by Ignite-UX.

The -u and -p options always rewind the speciﬁed tape device ﬁle to the Beginning of Tape

Ensure that the target tape device where the tape contents will be copied, is of equal or greater capacity than

the tape device from which the copy_boot_tape command is copying.

If the copy_boot_tape operation is performed from a DDS, 8mm or QIC tape drive onto a different

type of tape drive, for example, DLT, then the copy operation may fail. This is because the DDS, 8mm or

QIC tape drive use setmarks and the destination tape drive may not support the setmarks.

If the copy_boot_tape operation is performed onto a DDS, 8mm or QIC tape drive from a different

type of tape drive, for example, DLT, then there might be errors while attempting to read from the copied

tape at a later point. This is because the formats of data written to different tape devices may defer depend-

ing on the tape drive.

DEPRECATED OPTIONS

The following options have been deprecated from HP-UX 11iv3 March 2010 release. The user must invoke

the /opt/ignite/data/scripts/examples/copy_boot_tape command to use any of the deprecated options.

-a When used with the −u option, extract only the system archive from the tape. When used with the

−p option, write only the system archive to tape. (The tape will not be bootable.)

-b When used with the −u option, extract only the boot area from the tape. When used with the -p

option, write only the boot area to tape. (The tape will be bootable without software to install.)

-m indicates that the boot tape is the ﬁrst of a multi-tape recovery kit. (Tape-to-tape copy is not

allowed for multi-tape kits.)

-r Overwrite the system archive on a boot tape with the contents of the ﬁle systemimage in the

directory indicated by the -d option.

EXAMPLES

Extract the boot area and the system archive to the ﬁles ﬁle0001, ﬁle0002,... in the directory /extra_space:

(This will prompt for a blank tape in /dev/rmt/c0t0d0DDS1n to copy the extracted ﬁles to another

tape.)

copy_boot_tape -u /dev/rmt/c0t0d0DDS1n -d /extra_space

Create a boot tape from the tape contents previously extracted to /extra_space

copy_boot_tape -p /dev/rmt/c0t0d0DDS1n -d /extra_space

Extract the boot area and the system archive to a second tape on the system:

copy_boot_tape -u /dev/rmt/c0t0d0DDS1n -p /dev/rmt/c1t1d0DDS1n