since you specified make_tape_recovery, you're implying that you use ignite to make a bootable tape recovery -
In solaris, we have a disk means of doing that, flarcreate
try a search on bigadmin.sun.com for flar and here's what you get -
http://onesearch.sun.com/search/onesearch/index.jsp?col=community-bigadmin& qt=flar
you can also look in docs.sun.com for flarcreate - it should yield some examples too -