Copying the boot disk

[Subhas R. Reddy]

I remember seeing a script submitted by a lady former for copying boot disk to another disk and she even mentioned that she copied about 300 HP-UX systems. Does any one remember the thread?

Thanks,

Subhas

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

I've attached my 'LIFEBOAT' creation script that copies boot disk(s) to identical disk(s).
Make sure that you set the SRC and DEST variables and you are all set. It is best to do this while a system is realtively quiescent since you a copying a running system. If you then boot from the lifeboat disk(s), the system will run an fsck but I've never had one to fail. If you want a truly quiescent system, you can split the root mirror before running this script.


This should get you started, Clay

[Patrick Wallek]

Check out this post, specifically Peggy Fong's response.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xa1c6d06ed8c8d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

[Subhas R. Reddy]

Thanks a lot guys

Subhas