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тАО09-30-2009 02:24 AM
тАО09-30-2009 02:24 AM
Creating system bootable tape on HP-UX 9000/700
We got very old HP-UX 9000/700 and I created System bootable tapes using following commands as mentioned in man pages;
dd if=/usr/lib/uxbootlf.700 of=/dev/rmt/0mn bs=2k
and
dd if=dev/rdsk/c201d6s0 of=/dev/rmt/0m bs=64k
I could boot from this tape but when I tried to start HP-UX with the command at ISL as under: ISL>hpux boot tape(scsi.3;0) it failed.
I am not sure if the tape was created alright ? I could not try ISL>hpux restore disk(scsi.6;0) as don't have a spare box.
Please let me know what could be done better ?
Thanks in advance
Ahmad
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тАО09-30-2009 02:58 AM
тАО09-30-2009 02:58 AM
Re: Creating system bootable tape on HP-UX 9000/700
You can try the ignite backup
(1) Make sure Ignite software installed in server , once it is confirmed then execute cmd as
(2) # /opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -I -v -a /dev/rmt/0mn
This will backup the root VG and makes the tape bootable
(3) Review the log files:
/var/opt/ignite/logs/makrec.log1 #Logs progress reports
/var/opt/ignite/logs/makrec.log2 #Logs an Index of filesets stored on tape
(4) once it is done then you can interrupt the boot sequence and on Main menu search for bootable device as
Main menu > sea
Then boot from tape as
# bo p3 ( p3 is e.g. in your case it may different )
Regards,
Subodh.
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тАО09-30-2009 03:20 AM
тАО09-30-2009 03:20 AM
Re: Creating system bootable tape on HP-UX 9000/700
/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -Av
where A specifies the entire root disk or volume group and v is for verbose mode.
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тАО09-30-2009 03:37 AM
тАО09-30-2009 03:37 AM
Re: Creating system bootable tape on HP-UX 9000/700
Looking at the "201" of the /dev/rdsk/c201 this workstation and igniteUX do not mix. You probably have nothing later than HP-UX 9.01 on it, most likely 8.x
You may be able to try something similar if you booted off the support CD or support tape. Nothing much you can do with this one except put it out of its miseries and get a newer one.
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тАО09-30-2009 03:47 AM
тАО09-30-2009 03:47 AM
Re: Creating system bootable tape on HP-UX 9000/700
Which OS version is it running?
And are you able to get the workstation booted up?
If it is a version less than 10.x, you should find a command to create a bootable recovery tape, scratching my brain a little seems to let me thing it was call mkrs
try:
man mkrs