HP 3000 Manuals

Setting Up and Maintaining Your System The Installation Guide

Chapter 5  Creating a System Recovery Tape 

Since you have made changes to your system resulting from the
installation and configuration process, it is necessary to back up this
information onto a system recovery tape.  The recovery process described
here differs from the routine backups performed for ensuring data
recovery.  That type of backup is described in chapter 6 "Performing
Tasks Using MPE/iX Commands," of Using Your System.

Create a system recovery tape by following these steps.  (If you are
already in MANAGER.SYS, omit step 1.  If you are not sure, enter SHOWME
at the prompt.)

   1.  Use the HELLO command to log on as MANAGER.SYS.

            : HELLO MANAGER.SYS Return 

       The system prompt (:)  appears.

   2.  At the system prompt (:), type the following to get into SYSGEN:

            : SYSGEN Return 

       The computer responds by displaying the SYSGEN prompt:

            sysgen>

   3.  You should have purchased blank DDS cassette tapes.  Load one of
       these read and write blank cassette tapes (slide the cassette tab
       to the right rear edge so that the recognition hole is closed),
       into the DDS tape drive.  See Figure 5-1 .  Remember not to use
       any other cassette labeled for another purpose.  Wait until the
       tape is fully loaded (the cassette light on the DDS drive stops
       blinking.)  Refer to chapter 7 "Using and Maintaining Your Tape
       Drive," if you need a description of the indicator lights for your
       particular tape drive.


          Figure 5-1.  Using a read and write blank tape 

       When the tape is loaded, a console message similar to the
       following is displayed on the screen:

              8:58/15/VOL (Unlabelled) mounted on LDEV#7

   4.  At the SYSGEN prompt, type the following (if the sysgen> prompt
       does not appear, press Return to get if):

            sysgen> TAPE STORE=!FSETLIST  Return 

   5.  After the tape loading process is complete, a tape request similar
       to the following appears:

            ?8:58/#S2/45/LDEV# FOR SYSGTAPE ON TAPE (NUM)?

       The message, called a tape request, asks for the LDEV number of
       the tape drive that you will use.  The session number (#S2) is
       your MANAGER.SYS session number.  The process identification
       number (PIN) (45 in this example) is the number that you will need
       in step 7 in the tape request to answer this message.  (The PIN
       number always appears after the second slash mark (/).)

   6.  Reply to the tape request by pressing the Ctrl and A keys
       simultaneously.

            Ctrl A 

       The = prompt appears.

   7.  Use the REPLY command including the PIN number and the LDEV of the
       tape drive that are in the tape request message.  Separate these
       two values with a comma.  The format of the reply is:

             =REPLY <PIN number>,<LDEV#>

       For the HP 3000 Series 9X7LX, the built-in tape drive is always
       LDEV 7 for your tape request.  In the above example, the PIN
       number is 45; therefore, you would type the following:

            =REPLY 45,7 Return 

       You will notice the tape drive lights flashing (if you would like
       a description of the light activities, refer to chapter 7, "Using
       and Maintaining Your Tape Drive") and hear noise coming from the
       drive.  This is all part of creating a system recovery tape.

       The number of files that you currently have on your system
       determines how long the store process takes.

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       NOTE  That this process of creating a system recovery tape could
             take from 30 minutes to two hours.

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       At the end of this process, the system tells you how many
       directories and files have been stored onto your cassette tape.
       When the process is finished, the sysgen> prompt reappears.

   8.  To return to the system prompt (:)  after the tape is created,
       type:

            sysgen> EXIT Return 

       The system prompt (:)  should reappear.

   9.  Remove the tape from the DDS tape drive by pressing the unload
       button on the front panel.  Then move the cassette tab to the
       read-only mode.

  10.  Place a new label on the tape.  To prevent jamming in the DDS tape
       drive, remove any old labels before adding new labels, and
       position the new label evenly on your cassette.

  11.  Store the system recovery tape with a listing of your backup
       files.  If you need information about creating a listing of your
       backup files or other information about system backup procedures
       and schedules, refer to Using Your System, A1707-92002.

Remember, never turn the computer off at the end of a work session.
Employees at your company may need access to the system even after normal
work hours.  Also, you must follow a procedure called system shutdown 
before you turn the computer off.  Information about system shutdown
procedures can be found in Using Your System (A1707-92002).

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