Can an Ignite server be used to backup/archive the HP-UX server it runs on?

[newa]

Hi,

We use Ignite serever to backup/archive other HP-UX servers called Ignite clients.

But can the Ignite-UX be of any use to backup/archive the HP-UX server running Ignite-UX? If the answer is yes then please give the details on how to do it.

If the answer is no then how do we back it up?

Thanks a lot in advance.

[Dennis Handly]

You can back it up to tape.

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

You could use make_net_recovery or setup the server to include itself but it would a waste of time and disk space. If your Ignite server fails and needs to restore the OS, there is no server to go to.

The server must always backup to either tape or another Ignite server. To backup to tape:

make_tape_recovery -I -v -x inc_entire=vg00 -a /dev/rmt/0mn

where: /dev/rmt/0mn is your tape drive.

[Viktor Balogh]

Another approach would be to set up the ignite service as a HA-package on a two-node cluster. The backup images can take place in a SAN, visible for both nodes. With this setup you can restore your machines from ignite even if one node fails...

[Ryan Green]

As mentioned, tape is an option.

You could put the image on another server that has enough free space. On the target server, you will have to create and export/share the location for the image to be stored.

The command to create the archive is:
make_net_recovery -s ign_svr \
-a target_svr:/path/to/image/location \
[other options as needed]

This will create an archive file on the target server. The target server will only have the one gzip compressed file. None of the other associated files under the client directory will be on the target server. You could use rsync to duplicate the client dirctory information for the ignite server on the target server.

[newa]

Thanks for your time.