Can we ignite backup/restore to/from disk?

[Ryan Bernard]

Hi I have a spare disk for my server so was thinking of configuring for backup / restore usage. Can we actually use ignite backup/restore to/from disk?

Thanks alot

[Pete Randall]

See "man make_net_recovery".


Pete

[Kapil Jha]

Hey Ryan,

Did not understood what exactly you are looking for, what would you get if you use this disk as backup/mirrored of vg00(as far as I understood you)
I think its better idea to use DRD to have another disk which could save you in trouble.

I still think I did not get your question ;)

BR,
Kapil+

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

somehow you have to make a ignite server your server and then you can use it from disk instead of tape.

As Pete said;

check manpages of make_net_recovery

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

the best way how to backup the system for restoration purpose is to use Ignite (tape / net ), if you have a space in the server where can you put your spare disk, them the DRD is also very good solution.

mikap

[Ryan Bernard]

thanks alot for the prompt response.

I was looking at the ignite admin guide and it indicate that "make_net_recovery command is to create a recovery image on another system". So does this mean that this command can only ignite to disk to another system, and not to its own HDD?

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

I was looking at the ignite admin guide and it indicate that "make_net_recovery command is to create a recovery image on another system". So does this mean that this command can only ignite to disk to another system, and not to its own HDD?

- it means that the image created from your system is located on remote server, if you like to clone from disk to disk use DRD.

mikap

[Ryan Bernard]

Sorry not familiar with DRD. Is it meant for HP-UX 11i v1? thanks

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

check this :

https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=DynRootDisk

only hp-ux 11iv2/3 is supported.

mikap

[Tingli]

You can ignite to your own server, by assigning this server as ignite server and ignite client together.

When you have an ignite server set up, it will search net for any other systems available and put them in the list as client, this includes itself. And you can create ignite image of itself.

The problem is that if the server becomes bad, you can not recover it by itself.

[Pete Randall]

Ignite's primary usage is as a disaster recovery tool. It is designed to rebuild the root volume of a server so that you can then go on and use your regular backup/restore software to recover all your data.

Based on that assumption, that it is a recovery tool, it doesn't really make sense to use it to back a server up to itself. People tend to think of Ignite as a backup/restore tool when that is hardly the case, at least as originally (and best) intended.


Pete