topic Re: the creation of a "golden image" in Operating System - HP-UX

the creation of a "golden image"

Maciej Szewczykowski — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:39:37 GMT

hello everybody.
i have HP-UX 11.0 system running and some specialized additional software installed on my workstation. now, i would like to create something what is called "golden image" (that is how they call it on HP administration course) - that means a complete image of the system + data + everything what is stored on the hard drive at the certain moment. having created such image on the tape, i could recover the system (for example in case of a hard drive breakdown) any time by transferring the image from tape device into the hard drive.
thus such image is something more than a simple backup, since it contains a copy of the system already installed.
could you please tell me how to do this?

Re: the creation of a "golden image"

RAC_1 — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:46:15 GMT

This ignite-ux used for recovery process.

Download latest ignite software from hp. (it is free)

Use make_tape_recovery or make_net_recovery commands to prepare the ignite recovery images.

Re: the creation of a "golden image"

hongjing_zhang — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:53:25 GMT

if your application data and some software are on vg00,you can use make_recovery! otherwise,you need backup data by fbackup or tar.

Re: the creation of a "golden image"

Slawomir Gora — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:56:31 GMT

Use Ignite-UX

look at:

http://ovweb.external.hp.com/lpe/doc_serv

product: Storage Data Protector 5.0

book: Administrators Guide

page: 458 -section Creating a "Golden Image"

Re: the creation of a "golden image"

Maciej Szewczykowski — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:01:14 GMT

Dear Anil,
could you please tell me the address of a page where i could download the mentioned software from (and an exact name of the software)?
thanks.

Dear Slawomir,
sorry for such curiosity, but where do you come from?
thanks for your reply.

Re: the creation of a "golden image"

RolandH — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:26:19 GMT

Hello Maciej,

you are right if you say:
"thus such image is something more than a simple backup, since it contains a copy of the system already installed."

Ignite-UX is designed to do a backup of your "system" to bring it up again in case of a complete brak down. Or to clone a lot of similar systems in a very fast and easy way.

Ignite-UX is not designed to save your Application Data. But you can do this if you have a small system with static data on it.

Go to this site to get the newest software for HP-UX 11.00 --> http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=IGNITEUXB

If you want to know everything about ignite how you do a golden image and how to recover your system, then read my attached document.

Also search here in the ignite-ux section in this forum. You will find a lot of hints and problems from users, who had the same problem as you before.

HTH
Roland

Re: the creation of a "golden image"

Maciej Szewczykowski — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:37:32 GMT

there's nothing else left but to say: thank you very much, Roland.

Re: the creation of a "golden image"

John Meissner — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 09:59:29 GMT

you can either use ignite or make_tape_recovery

make_tape_recovery -Av

that should backup the entire vg00 onto tape and if you need to restore just boot up and you can reinstall HP-UX and all your data will be there