Ignite and linux

[Ron Irving]

Hi again guys!!

Here's my latest issue: Currently igniting two systems across a small network to each other, using make_net_recovery. We have had some space issues, so a linux box was made available to me with 300GB of space. I have two lv's nfs mounted on each server. Is it possible to run the make_net_recovery and save the image on the new nfs shared directory, (we'll call it /backup.)

Please let me know if you need anything else.

[Torsten.]

The ignite server need to nfs export the space for the backup, so I doubt if you can export a nfs mounted directory, you need to try and tell.

[Ron Irving]

Yeah...I aleady tried, and couldn't do it due to NFS. Sigh.

Any other ideas? I guess I could run it, and copy it out after. Copy it back in if I need it.

[shanmuhanandam]

Hi
I think you can try this way..
from the manpage
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make_net_recovery(1M) make_net_recovery(1M)

NAME
make_net_recovery - network based system recovery archive creation

SYNOPSIS
/opt/ignite/bin/make_net_recovery -s Ignite-UX_server
[-a archive_server:archive_directory] [-A] [-b] [-d tag_string]
[-f content_file] [-i|-ib] [-l LLA] [-n number_archives] [-p]
[-P s|w|e] [-m tar|cpio|pax] [-r] [-v] [-x content-options]
[XToolkit_Options] [-?]

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-a archive sever:archive dir
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so, i think it is not required to do the NFS mount to hpux server. Make the dir (as client name on the linux server /backup/)You can directly copy the archives to linux machine. And the config details will be there on the ignite(hpux) server, only the archives will be there on linux machine,,

#make_net_recovery -s Ignite-UX_server -a archive_server:archive_directory

But i have not tried this procedure, could you please try this, and let us know.

[shanmuhanandam]

Hi,

one correction,,,, on linux machine /backup needs to NFS exported and should be given RW access to the hpux ignite server,

Thanks,
Shan.

[Ryan Green]

What shanmuhanandam said.

I currently use this method to backup our Ignite server to another HP-UX server. It should work for Linux as it is only supplying disk space. On the target host, you need to export the file system with "rw" access. The options that are in use on our v3 server for exporting "-o sec=sys,anon=2,rw=server_name"

On the source, use make_net_recovery with the -a option. You can also use options such as -n to control the number of images to retain, and -f for include/exclude information.

After the image is made, I use rsync to copy /var/opt/ignite/clients/$server to the target host. If you do this, make sure you also create a path and export the equivalent to /var/opt/ignite/clients from the Linux server.

[Zinky]

You SHOULD be able to store your make_net_recovery archives anywhere on your network where NFS or even CIFS is available.

As to your /var/opt/ignite bits.. yes you can use clever means to push that tree to your Networked Storage too.

[Ron Irving]

Thank you...case closed