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Ignite-UX server question

 
Anand Sreenivasan
Regular Advisor

Ignite-UX server question

I have made a make_tape_recovery on my IGnite-UX server and ran a backup successfully and I was able to read the contents from the tape also. Now, I have 5 clients who don't have tape drives attached to it. I have ran make_net_recovery to this IGnite-UX server to a filesystem which is part of VG00. The backups ran fine and I saw the images both in the Master and its tape. My question is , I dont see any entries in bootptab for the clients I ran the backups for and I dont see any information when I run instl_adm. Will I be able to restore my clients from the master by booting thro the lan, What am I missing, Appreciate any help.
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Steven E. Protter
Exalted Contributor

Re: Ignite-UX server question

Shalom,

make_net_recovery creates an image that is somewhat different from make_tape_recovery.

it is not surprising that you noticed differences, cheers to you for looking at the contents.

I have worked with both image types for years and versions of Ignite and the backups invariably work.

Should you trust me?

No.

You should test recovering a system with make_net_recovery.

Be sure.

SEP
Steven E Protter
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Anand Sreenivasan
Regular Advisor

Re: Ignite-UX server question

Shalom,
I have a DRP coming and I would know it there but I don't want to find that my backups are bad by walking in there :).. Would not be good, So thought I will double check and see if I am missing something. Any suggestions ??
DCE
Honored Contributor

Re: Ignite-UX server question


A suggestion for your DR - make sure you use the same IP addresses to restore the network backups - it is MUCH easier.

If you have to, change segment addressing and system addresses after the restores. It will save you a lot of time and hair pulling
Steven E. Protter
Exalted Contributor

Re: Ignite-UX server question

Shalom,

Suggestions:

1)DRP is for testing. If 100% success is expected that is kind of ridiculous.
2)Acquire an old server from ebay and do your test with that. Set it up with the newest HP-UX you can and do the make_net_recovery then clean the system out, boot and restore. If you have a sandbox type system, that is the one to dedicate to the task.

SEP
Steven E Protter
Owner of ISN Corporation
http://isnamerica.com
http://hpuxconsulting.com
Sponsor: http://hpux.ws
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hpuxlinux
Founder http://newdatacloud.com
Anand Sreenivasan
Regular Advisor

Re: Ignite-UX server question

Thanks a lot guys, I think I will just go to the DRP site and find it out. I am going to boot the clients thro lan and yes, They all will be in the same LAN segment.. Hopefully they are going to see the server and boot from it. I will update you guys on how it goes..

S Anandd