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Re: ignite recover Q

 
bobstar
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ignite recover Q

hi ,

i have an ignite backup tape that i used to perform a recover from, inserted it into my tape drive and booted off it, i was then told i had to use the install unix option to recover data from the tape. my question is that when i performed this , to me it just looked like a new install of the OS - i had to mount the new partitions etc. this does not look like a recover its more of an install. am i right in thinking that the tape given to me was an OS recover ? anyway the fact that i had to choose all the install options - ip address , hostname etc , does not , to me , look like a recover procedure

i hope i am making sense

thanks
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Peter Godron
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Re: ignite recover Q

Hi,
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Steven E. Protter
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Re: ignite recover Q

Shalom,

It is a new install of the OS.

The Ignite Interface is the same as the installation interface.

Same tool does new installs and restore installs.

There is a lot of common code.

You can choose to non-interactively restore Ignite, which will lay things down exactly as they were in the image.

But, you can play around with the interactive interface, which you choose to do such things as make / filesystem or swap bigger.

Root can't be expanded on the fly because it requires contiguous space.

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Bill Hassell
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Re: ignite recover Q

The term 'recover' might seem to imply repairing a few problems, and Ignite/UX does NOT do this. It is a cold install which was created from an existing system. It is designed to reinstall on a replacement boot disk, or to allow changing lvol sizes or even filesystem types (hfs, vxfs). There are tabs for IP asddress and hostname but these are filled in automatically. If they were not filled in, the Ignite tape may have been created as a Golden Image, a starting point for a bootable system with no applications.

The only 'recovery' or repair method for HP-UX is the core HP-UX CDROM which can (after detailed reading of the recovery documentation) allow you to repair the HP-UX code. However, this requires that you know what needs to be fixed and how to accomplish the task. There is no automatic repair.


Bill Hassell, sysadmin