topic Re: Golden image in Operating System - HP-UX

Golden image

Fabian Briseño — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:11:21 GMT

Hello guys, nice day to you all.
Several quick questions, The other day I made a golden image of a server, this is the command I utilized.
The image was taken on an K260 server. with hpux 11.i

make_sys_image -s -d /var/opt/ignite/recovery/archives/golden11.11 -l 2 -n golden11.i.gz

does this command look ok, or do I have to add anything else ?

after this finished this was displayed:
pax: var/spool/cron/tmp/croutJCWa01298 : No such file or directory
WARNING: The pax command returned a non-zero exit status (exit status 1).
* Creation of system archive complete.
* Clean up: Do not interrupt; restoring files, kernel, and transition
links.

What does exit status 1 mean ?
In teory I should be able to recover this image on any server on my site, correct ?
Does this image contain everithing from kernel parameters to patches ?
can I use the "-x inc_entire=vg00" command here ?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Golden image

Ludovic Derlyn — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:35:47 GMT

hi

for the pax error, it's not critical
I see this file before begin to save, and when the save is completed, the file may be deleted
Warning is just for indicates at one moment files is present , after is not present.

regards

L-DERLYN

Re: Golden image

Sandy Chen — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:34:14 GMT

Hi,

Yes, the command is correct.

The error message, as mentioned before is normal. When you first execute the command the file is there, after you finished, it's gone. The image will contain your kernel and patches

The image will be able to recovered into any alike server, but not into a server with a huge differences, for a sample, this is not a cell based server, if you restore it to a cell based server, it will not running properly.

Regards,
Sandy

Re: Golden image

Fabian Briseño — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:59:19 GMT

Thanks a lot guys.

closing this thread now.