topic Re: Ignite Restore in Operating System - HP-UX

Ignite Restore

SCSI Error — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:02:51 GMT

Hi,

Is it OK to restore an ignite bakcup to a different machine class?

let's say E-Class to R-Class

Re: Ignite Restore

Bill Hassell — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:11:41 GMT

It generally will not work unless the interface cards are the same, especially disk and lan. With newer versions of Ignite-UX, there is an advanced option to restore to different hardware but the source machine must already have the required drivers for the target machine.

Re: Ignite Restore

P Muralidhar Kini — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:13:40 GMT

Hi,

Check the following link for discussion on a similar question -
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1275966633706+28353475&threadId=38956
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1274630642996+28353475&threadId=861320

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Murali

Re: Ignite Restore

Torsten. — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:50:49 GMT

Sometimes it works, sometimes not.

Most of the times the image has not all the needed drivers for the newer hardware.

>> let's say E-Class to R-Class

Both are old, but both are different.

R-class is at least one generation newer than the good old e-class.

Re: Ignite Restore

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:04:53 GMT

Shalom,

Ignite on 11.31 or other supported versions of HP-UX OS does a fairly good job of handling hardware changes, but does not always get it right.

For those situations you have the Ignite Golden Image which is somewhat less hardware dependent.

SEP

Re: Ignite Restore

Torsten. — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:08:58 GMT

Since you mentioned R- and e-classes I assume you have 10.20 or less running - very, very old. If it is older, it probably cannot run on the r-class anyway.

Try it or not, but make a backup first.