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

Ignite Tips

Xavier Gutierrez — Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:07:49 GMT

Hi, guys.

I'm doing a compilation of Ignite UX tips.
So, if you want to post some of them on this thread...

PS: I will take care of cut & pastes so, please be original...

Re: Ignite Tips

harry d brown jr — Mon, 02 Dec 2002 13:43:04 GMT

Veritas's bare metal restore is not a replacement for IgniteUx, but a blank piece of paper is a replacement for veritas's bare metal restore!

live free or die
harry

Re: Ignite Tips

Clemens van Everdingen — Mon, 02 Dec 2002 13:43:10 GMT

Hi,

I agree and also read these pages:

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/faq.html

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/

And keep yourself up to date with the latest versions.

C.

Re: Ignite Tips

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Mon, 02 Dec 2002 13:46:26 GMT

use make_bundles to create a patch bundle, include the patch bundle config in the Index file for each archive.. one of the easiest ways to "update" the archive/golden image..

I recommend using the Ignite gui as error messages are often more readable than the cli and in cases where permissions are causing problems, it'll ask you to correct rather than abort.

The ignite FAQ and Admin guide found on software.hp.com is worth a look!!

Later,
Bill

Re: Ignite Tips

Pete Randall — Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:10:03 GMT

I've got one tip: Use it - and use it regularly.

Pete

Re: Ignite Tips

Patrick Wallek — Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:20:04 GMT

To restore a single file from an Ignite/UX tape (make_tape_recovery):

# mt -f /dev/rmt/?mn rew
# mt -f /dev/rmt/?mn fsf 1
# tar -xvf /dev/rmt/?mn dir/filename

NOTE: That there is NOT a leading / or ./ on the path of the file you are restoreing.

To restore a single file from an Ignite/UX Network archive (make_net_recovery):

# gzcat network_recovery_archive_name | tar -xvf - dir/filename

Use make_tape_recovery or make_net_recovery on a regular basis. We have most of our machines doing a weekly make_tape_recovery.

Re: Ignite Tips

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:38:53 GMT

Hi:

In lieu of using 'tar' to extract file(s) from an Ingite 'make_recovery_tape' [documented in that command's man pages], use 'pax'. You can easily extract files to your current working directory. See the 'pax' man pages for more information.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Ignite Tips

John Dvorchak — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 16:18:52 GMT

To determine when an Ignite tape was created I use:

1. mt rew
2. dd if=/dev/rmt/xm of=/tmp/tapelif bs=2048 count=10
3. lifls -l /tmp/tapelif
4. the date is listed yy/mm/dd

Here is a sample output.

volume ISL10 data size 281239 directory size 3 02/11/27 18:02:16
filename type start size implement created
===============================================================
ISL -12800 16 240 0 02/11/27 18:02:16
AUTO -12289 256 1 0 02/11/27 18:02:16
INDEX BIN 264 1 0 02/11/27 18:02:16
CONFIG BIN 272 37 0 02/11/27 18:02:17
HPUX -12928 312 880 0 02/11/27 18:02:17
INSTALL -12290 1192 26990 0 02/11/27 18:02:25
INSTALLFS -12290 28184 31744 0 02/11/27 18:02:33
FWWKAR BIN 59928 1 0 02/11/27 18:02:33
INSTCMDS BIN 59936 10750 0 02/11/27 18:02:35
SYSCMDS BIN 70688 45488 0 02/11/27 18:02:44
SCRIPTS BIN 116176 42 0 02/11/27 18:02:44

Re: Ignite Tips

Wodisch — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 18:43:33 GMT

how about:
- using "-I" (interfactive restore) on "make_*_recovery"
- using "VG" parameters with bigger PE-sizes
- using "Golden Images" instead of "cold installs"

FWIW,
Wodisch

Re: Ignite Tips

John Poff — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 19:58:43 GMT

Hi,

I have a tip. Keep your vg00 clean and free of any extra filesystems that really belong in another volume group. We had a production system where somebody created a 2Gb filesystem in vg00 to store Oracle patches. It sure slowed down the creation of Ignite tapes, not to mention the joy of sitting through an extra 2Gb of data spinning off of a DDS tape when we were trying to recover a system!

JP

Re: Ignite Tips

SSO Montgomery — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 17:33:49 GMT

JP, keep a clean vg00 tip is worth AT LEAST 25 points! Great advise.

Re: Ignite Tips

Tom Jackson — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 17:39:51 GMT

Hi:

Keep the most recent ignite tape offsite for contingency planning.

I use the following command to backup my entire root volume, including /opt:

make_recovery -A -C -v -d /dev/rmt/0mn

Tom

Re: Ignite Tips

Dean_51 — Wed, 05 May 2004 13:53:03 GMT

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