Hello, Could someone please point me to documentation for restore/recovery in the event of hardware crash. Not emergency yet, but there is no recovery plan in house at this time. Pretty scary. Thank You. Tim.
Tim, you probably have to develop a detailed Disaster recovery proceedure for your environment based on what you have. However, to assist you, you might want to look a using Ignite-UX (which is free from HP) to create images of your servers http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/index.html
The scariest thing that can happen is when one of your hard drives dies - in that case, you would have to recover from backups. If other harware fails (I find these are rare) you would just replace the part and keep going :)
I would suggest the following:
1. Have a hardware support contract with HP (that way when something goes wrong, they can come in and replace the part) 2. Take an inventory of all your equipment; 3. Use ignite to create bootable disaster recovery tapes 4. Use nightly backups to back up your data 5. In the event of a hardware failure, you get HP (or your hardware support) to replace the part, restore your ignite image; and restore your data from normal backups ... ahem - a typical recovery takes just 4 hours !!! And you do not have to remember what the sizes of your logical volumes were...
Good luck
nothing wrong with me that a few lines of code cannot fix!
