topic Re: Ignite for PC ? in Operating System - HP-UX

Ignite for PC ?

Ian Falconer_2 — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:13:07 GMT

I understand that Ignite-UX is a "just" UNIX utility, but is there a HP supplied utility that does the same job (of creating bootable tapes) for Windows-based servers ?

TIA

Re: Ignite for PC ?

Donald Kok — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:19:23 GMT

No.
Not even for other *nix flavors, like linux.
Sorry.
Donald

Re: Ignite for PC ?

melvyn burnard — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:23:08 GMT

HP-UX only at this stage, I am afraid.

Re: Ignite for PC ?

harry d brown jr — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:24:41 GMT

Boot tapes for windoze?

There are a lot of products for windoze. I prefer /dev/null :-)

live free or die
harry

Re: Ignite for PC ?

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:30:51 GMT

Hi,
We use "ghost" for network backup/restores of Windows servers and clients, it is not as good as Ignite but it works.
http://www.symantec.com/product/

Re: Ignite for PC ?

Michael Duthie — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:37:30 GMT

IUX is as mentioned above an HPUX product, for intel we use a product called Ghost from Symantec. It does the job.

Re: Ignite for PC ?

Duncan Edmonstone — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:40:46 GMT

Doesn't create bootable tapes, but a similar product for Windows is 'Norton Ghost':

http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/products/products.cfm?ProductID=3&EID=0

Or if you have HP (compaq) kit you could look at one-button-disaster-recovery (OBDR):

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=lpg50054

or for a solution that works on UNIX and windows you could spend a fortune on netbackup and then use bare-metal-restore (BMR):

http://www.veritas.com/products/category/ProductDetail.jhtml?productId=bmr

HTH

Duncan

Re: Ignite for PC ?

Stuart Abramson_2 — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:46:41 GMT

At my last job the W2K group used Ghost.

Veritas also makes something, but I forget the name. Something like "BareMetal Restore". It holds images of your complete W2K OS for restore on the "bare metal".

Re: Ignite for PC ?

Ian Falconer_2 — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 06:58:35 GMT

Thanks for all your responses, I had suspected as much.

Re: Ignite for PC ?

Everett R. Stroman — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 11:47:58 GMT

Hello Ian,

I think Mondo is what you looking for: http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/

What is Mondo?, disaster recovery suite for Linux and Windows.

Mondo is reliable. It backs up your GNU/Linux server or workstation to tape, CD-R, CD-RW or NFS partition. In the event of catastrophic data loss, you will be able to restore all of your data [or as much as you want], from bare metal if necessary. Mondo is in use by Nortel Networks, Siemens, HP (US and France), IBM, NASA's JPL, dozens of smaller companies, and tens of thousands of users.

Good Luck,

Reggie

Re: Ignite for PC ?

Bill Hassell — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 02:58:49 GMT

You might look at Stomp, Inc software for backups including making a bootable recovery CD (tapes on PC's are pretty unusual or pretty darn small). CD-R and CD-RW drives are very common and inexpensive. The software runs about $80 for a single user.

Re: Ignite for PC ?

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 03:09:36 GMT

I'll endorse Ghost. The later versions even let you make a bootable restore cd set.

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