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likid0
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Vpar & restore question

Hy,

I have a doubt i hope you people can solve:

I have an rp with 1 npar, in that npar i have created 2 vpars, which both are going to be restored with ignite monthly because its a BRS project.

My question is, each time i restore the first vpar i restore in the same disk from which the /stand/vpmon booted, so when i restore the machine i am going to loose the vpars config and the vpmon kernel?


the image that i restore has vpars 2.0, and it is in production, so when i restored from ignite to create the vpars i had to update the version to 3.0 because the 3.0 version vpmon wouldnt boot, so each time a restore from ignite i am loosing the vpmon from version 3.0

is this true?

the only thing that i can think of if this is the case is, using 2 diferent disks one that has vpars v3.0 that boots the vpmon, and the other disk on wich i restore the server each time is needed

thnx
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Tim Nelson
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Re: Vpar & restore question

How often are you doing system restores ??

How often are the vpar configs changed ? I would not think too often.

If so then you should be updating your ignite image at the same time anyway ?

The other vpar would still have an active copy of vpmon and it's database file. Run vparstatus on the good host after the rebuild but before boot. This may sync the files. ( just a guess, would have to test ).
likid0
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Re: Vpar & restore question

restores once a month, vpars config is allways the same.

what i am worried about is the production server(ignite image), has the vpars 2.x version, and for vpars to boot you need version3, 1 option is to swinstall vpars3 as you are restoring from ignite.


and do you really think that the other vpar, has a copy of the vpmon kernel?, i now it syncs the vpdb where the config is, but anyway when a full reboot of the server comes, it would still boot the vpon in the first vpar disk


thnx
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Reshma Malusare
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Re: Vpar & restore question

According my information vpar contains local copy of vpdb. about vpmon.. you need to manually take a copy.

Thanks & Regrds
Reshma
Torsten.
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Re: Vpar & restore question

How about a *new* ignite image with an updated vPars version?

Restore your image, upgrade, backup again.

The A.02.xx versions are unsupported since 2005.

The hp-ux 11.11 versions currently supported are A.03.03/04.

Except the A.05.xx version, you cannot mix various versions to run together.

Hope this helps!
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likid0
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Re: Vpar & restore question

But Torsten, what i need is changes that happen in the production server, to be restored in the brs servers, if i restore,update,backup. i am backing up the brs image it wont be any good for me. Updating vpars in the production server would work ok, but thats imposible :D.

So what i am going to do, is swinstall vpars 3.x in the ignite recovery process, each time i restore the server.


Thnx
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Torsten.
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Re: Vpar & restore question

There was no scheduled downtime over the last 3 years? No updates, patches etc.?

In case of a problem I can already hear the voices - unsupported, unsupported, unsupported ...

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likid0
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Re: Vpar & restore question

hehe touche!!
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