topic Re: restore from make_recovery in Operating System - HP-UX

restore from make_recovery

Luigi Berengan — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 06:17:49 GMT

Good morning,
I would like restore the system from a make_recovery tape to a disk different from the original.

Is it possible ? How ?

Thank you very much in advance from italy.
Luigi

Re: restore from make_recovery

Victor Fridyev — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 06:31:43 GMT

Hi Luigi,
It's definitely possible if the new disk has more disk space than the old one. In this case you can increase ( or not increase) sizes of vg00 file systems. If the new disk has less space than the source, you will have to decrease sizes of some FS/SWAP, but please check previously whether the new sizes are enough for the data in the source FS.

Good luck

Re: restore from make_recovery

G. Vrijhoeven — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 06:35:10 GMT

HI Luigi,

Sure it is possible, if the different disk is in the same server type.
Put in the tape. interrupt the boot proces. sea ipl, select the tape drive. boot P
To select the disk use advanced installation option. And select different disk, alter additional parameters if needed and go!

HTH,

Gideon

Re: restore from make_recovery

Hari Kumar — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 06:38:08 GMT

Sure it is possible

Re: restore from make_recovery

Sanjay Kumar Suri — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 06:51:17 GMT

A make_recovery tape may be used to restore a system in either Interactive or non-Interactive mode. Non-Interactive is the normal mode that should be used when recovering a corrupted boot disk.

For interactive recovery look for the message: â Press : within 10 seconds to cancel batch mode installationâ .

You can then follow various options to do the needful

Re: restore from make_recovery

Luigi Berengan — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:09:03 GMT

Ok, I booted from tape with interantive options and now I am in ISL> but I don't know the command to see the LUN (via FC) where install the system.

Thank you
Luigi

Re: restore from make_recovery

G. Vrijhoeven — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:13:01 GMT

Luigi,

You do not need to interact with IPL. You can go back and boot direct from tape. The server will do echo a hpux INSTALL during boot. The HD selection can takes place in ignite menu. Not from ISL prompt.

HTH,

Gideon

Re: restore from make_recovery

John Carr_2 — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:13:11 GMT

at the ISL prompt type SEA to get disks info

John.

Re: restore from make_recovery

Tim Sanko — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:14:56 GMT

Luigi,

Here is the easiest manner to proceed,

1. interrupt the boot process.
2. sea (search for the bootable device)
3. bo PX (X is the tape device)

4. Understand that you may need local disk to install hp/ux, if you are using an external raid. Then you can mirror to FC disk, then split the mirror, set the default device as primary, and then reboot.

Tim