topic Re: Advice on making IgniteUX recovery across network in Operating System - HP-UX

Advice on making IgniteUX recovery across network

ITeam — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:49:11 GMT

Hi.

I have an HPUX 11iv2 itanium 2 server which is to serve as a DR machine for a (nearly identical) live server. The DR server does not have a tape device of any sort. With this in mind, I was planning to build the DR server from an Ignite backup made for the current live server. This Ignite backup would reside on the live server or another HPUX server on the network (the same subnet).

I think I need to use the make_net_recovery command on the live server & direct the backup to a designated directory. Then export this directory. After that I planned on interrupting the DR server during boot up & hoping it would see the Ignite backup on the live server.

I suppose I am after confirmation of this procedure as I have not found anything conclusive on the HP web site thus far.

Many thanks.

Re: Advice on making IgniteUX recovery across network

Tim Nelson — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:41:47 GMT

In my experience you need the ignite server to be on a third server.

I have never been able to make_net_recovery the ignite server. It attempts to NFS mount its own /var/opt/clients directory on top of itself and will always fail.

My logical flow for full DR. make_net_recovery from all servers to Ignite server.

make_tape_recovery of the Ignite server and possible backup in some other fashion the /var/opt/ignite/clients and /var/opt/ignite/recovery/archives if you cannot get this all on the make_tape_recovery.

To restore.
-Use the ignite tape to recover the ignite server.
-If needed restore the above directories.
-Boot your "other" servers from the ignite server and recover.
-Restore your data backups

Re: Advice on making IgniteUX recovery across network

ITeam — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:10:06 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

I really wanted to be able to build the DR server from the live server's Ignite backup. We may have to get a tape device for the DR server & do a make_tape_recovery on the live server but I thought there was another way.

Re: Advice on making IgniteUX recovery across network

ITeam — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:11:03 GMT

I have moved this posting to the IgniteUX section.