Backup to network drive

[carlomd]

Hi all, I'm a newbie to Ignite and HPUX, I need to backup our rp3410 with Ignite, and we're wondering if it's possible to do a make_net_recovery to a network hdd, if anyone can give some pointers that would be great, thanks.

[Aussan]

take a look at the ignite admin guide

http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-6440/index.html

i'm assuming you already have an ignite server.

if not the guide will explain everything

"Using make_net_recovery

The Ignite-UX server has the make_net_recovery command to create a system recovery archive on another system on the network. The archive created by make_net_recovery is specific to the system it was created for and its identity includes hostname, IP_address, networking information, and so on. In the event of a root disk failure, you use the Ignite-UX server to restore the system by installing the recovery archive.

The contents of the system recovery archive always includes all files and directories which are essential to bringing up a functional system. This â essentialâ list is pre-defined by make_net_recovery. You can run make_net_recovery in its interactive mode to review the directories and files which make up the â essential list,â and also add or remove other data from the archive on a disk/volume group, file, or directory basis.
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[carlomd]

Thanks for the reply Aussan, you mean you need another HPUX server that has the Ignite s/w installed for this to work. Our Ignite is on the actual production server. Thanks

[Bill Hassell]

> Thanks for the reply Aussan, you mean you need another HPUX server that has the Ignite s/w installed for this to work. Our Ignite is on the actual production server.

Correct. You need an HP-UX server to act as the Ignite server (along with several dozen free Gigabytes of space for multiple backups). If you have only one HP-UX box without a backup device, the system is at serious risk. Linux and Windows and Macs are useless to restore your HP-UX system as is a shared drive from anywhere. Ignite is designed to boot a dead server but non-HP-UX system lack the special software and services to handle this task.

[carlomd]

Thanks, looks like we're gonna need to get that scsi tape drive to work then, cause that was reason I wanted to go with Ignite, is because the scsi adapter on the server won't recognize the tape drive, and when I called HP the 1st time around, they said since I have 3 hdd's taking up the scsi adapter, I'll need another scsi adapter to connect the tape drive to. Is there any other HPUX back up s/w around.

[Bill Hassell]

> I wanted to go with Ignite, is because the scsi adapter on the server won't recognize the tape drive, and when I called HP the 1st time around, they said since I have 3 hdd's taking up the scsi adapter, I'll need another scsi adapter to connect the tape drive to. Is there any other HPUX back up s/w around.

There are several issues here. The tape drive will work fine on the SCSI bus ASSUMING that the tape drive is not a high voltage interface. What is the tape drive? As far as recognition, ioscan looks at every unique address on the bus. Naturally, you must set the drive to an unused address. The ioscan command will show you all the current devices and their address on the bus.

Trying some other software doesn't make sense since you are trying to backup a server without a backup solution (read: misconfigured). You must use Ignite in order to create a backup for the boot drive. Without this backup, your only choice to recover this system is to reinstall from the CD/DVD (you do have a CD player installed, correct?)

Another alternative is to create a bootable DVD using Ignite. The details are in the Ignite User manual. You'll need a compatible DVD writer or plan to spend a lot time building the DVD image(s), transferring them to a PC as an ISO image and then burning the DVD on the PC.

[carlomd]

Hi Bill, it's a Quantum dlt vs80, I spoke to both quantum and HP (call center) and they confirmed about the issue, they both said it needs to be on a seperate scsi controller, from reading around looks like Ignite is the only backup s/w out there. When I run ioscan it sees the name of the drive but it shows no id, or not available, with whatever number I try off the drive, also confirmed with HP and Quantum during my call.
There's a dvd writer on it, but that sounds very time consuming from your advise, I can look around for a scsi adapter, it's also mirrored btw. Thanks