topic Re: Bootable Tape Backup in Operating System - HP-UX

Bootable Tape Backup

Don Clayton — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 19:47:16 GMT

Which backup method should I use to make a tape that I can boot from? I am looking for the HP-UX equivalent of the AIX mksysb command.
Will this command cover all filesystems or only the root filesystem?

Re: Bootable Tape Backup

Sandip Ghosh — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 19:50:18 GMT

If you want to make a emergency recovery tape you can download Ignite UX from HP Website for free. By that you can create the emergency recovery tape with complete backup of VG00.

Sandip

Re: Bootable Tape Backup

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 19:54:31 GMT

The closest equivalent is an Ignite/UX make_tape_recovery. This is intended to restore /dev/vg00 but you do bring the machine back complete with all patches and installed software (as long as /opt and /usr are in VG00). You then rely upon your more traditional backups for remaining VG's. In the best of worlds, you still run make_tape_recovery but you never need it because you are also running Mirror/UX, all your disks are hot-pluggable, and thus you never need to shutdown for a failed disk.

Re: Bootable Tape Backup

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 19:59:10 GMT

Hi Don:

"Ignite" software implements this ability.

You can obtain both documentation and software from here:

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

Ignite software can be installed (via 'swinstall') in a few minutes and does not require a reboot. 'man' pages are provided with the installed software, too.

Once installed, you can create a bootable tape of volume group vg00 containing the operating system's filesystems use:

# make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -I -v -a /dev/rmt/0mn

This tape is bootable and can be used to clone your server; recover a defunct vg00; or simply reinstall the OS while resizing its filesystems.

'vgexport' map files are automatically created for each non-vg00 volume group and a 'vgimport' is attempted for them if the recovery tape is invoked.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Bootable Tape Backup

Sajid_1 — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:02:19 GMT

Yes, make_tape_recovery is the command. You can make the bootable tape with that and can reload the OS if necessary in future:

# man make_tape_recovery
# man make_recovery (old version)