topic Ignite from EMC disk in Operating System - HP-UX

Ignite from EMC disk

Larry Basford — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:00:37 GMT

Can I build an ignite image on an emc disk which I can then srdf off site to Sungard which I can Ignite a disaster recovery server from ?

We are curently halling tapes to Ignite the servers. Not always sucessfully. bad media or tape drive problems.

I am able to see the disks when we did testing at the desaster site. I want to try to ignite form one. (I can test this loacally)
I have 2 8GB luns which are replicated to Sungard now. I can't just mirror to them and boot at Sungard because the hardware is too different.

I've been looking at make_medialif
Is this the right way to go?

Re: Ignite from EMC disk

Simon Hargrave — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:04:25 GMT

You can create a make_net_recovery instead of make_tape_recovery archive. This will allow you to boot off the LAN and archive these.

You will need an Ignite/UX server on your LAN, to which you will perform make_net_recovery's. You can then upload these files to Sunguard, and retrieve them back to your Ignite/UX server to perform a network install.

Re: Ignite from EMC disk

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:10:03 GMT

Yes.

You need to make sure you get that disk into the LVM disk at the DR site in a non-destructive fashion.

You would probably be best with an Ignite Golden Image, using make_sys_image.

This can be done directly to a file. It should not be run on a production/running system. When the network configuration is archived, user permissions look funky and I've seen this disrupt Oracle database operations.

SEP

Re: Ignite from EMC disk

Larry Basford — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:11:01 GMT

How do I bring up my ignite server at Sungard?

If it comes up it will have all of the archives with it.

Of course all of the LAN id's are different.
I've had trouble getting lan boot working also.

Re: Ignite from EMC disk

Geoff Wild — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:46:32 GMT

You will need the map files of the volume groups, best would be to have a make_recovery_tape of the server....

What we do, our ignite server is also our backup server - so after we recover the backup, we can then restore from tape.

Rgds...Geoff