topic Re: RAID4Si on HP-UX system in Operating System - HP-UX

RAID4Si on HP-UX system

Veron_Le — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 03:44:46 GMT

Hi,

Currently I got an CardRAID4Si on rp5470 (HP-UX OS) to controll Disk Storage 2405.

The question is that how I can copy CardRAID configure to HDD for backup.

Thanks and appreciate all your help,

Regards,
Veron

Re: RAID4Si on HP-UX system

Suraj Singh_1 — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 05:05:57 GMT

Hi,

You can redirect the output of "irdiag" command to a file:
# irdiag -v > raid4si.bkp

It is recommended to keep a hard copy of this output.

To find more details about this card, visit http://docs.hp.com/en/J6173-90007/ch03.html

Regards

Re: RAID4Si on HP-UX system

Veron_Le — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 20:16:57 GMT

Dear Singh,

Thanks for your very good info.

Pls also help to provide the command how to restore RAID Config from backup file.

Thank you very much,
Veron

Re: RAID4Si on HP-UX system

Devender Khatana — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 02:02:46 GMT

Hi Veron,

This is perhaps a hard copy of your layouts showing how allocation is done (Which Raid levels of which disks). Restoration of this is not required. Even if you need to change controller it reads the config having scan the devices as discussed in cahpter 5 of the same book under title replacing a controller.

HTH,
Devender

Re: RAID4Si on HP-UX system

Veron_Le — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 05:00:05 GMT

Hi

You means there are no way to restore hard copy of RAID configuration, is it right?
If that, We dont need to backup config file.

Regards,
Veron

Re: RAID4Si on HP-UX system

Suraj Singh_1 — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 07:06:43 GMT

Yes, you are right, there is no way to take the backup of configuration on hard-disk. You can only take the hard-copy of the config.

Regards

Re: RAID4Si on HP-UX system

Veron_Le — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 21:29:17 GMT

Hi Singh,

So What is the hard-copy of config for? If we can not use it to restore our RAID config in case it has been lost.

Regards,
Veron

Re: RAID4Si on HP-UX system

Suraj Singh_1 — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 22:42:09 GMT

Hi Veron,

HP recommends to keep the hard-copy of the config - if you have to restore the configuration for some reason, the hardcopy contains all of the information you will need.

Collect the configuration information by issuing this command and sending its output to either a printer or a file (to be printed later):

irdiag -v

Hope this clarifies.

Regards