copyutil

[Hue Vang]

I have a HP9000 G50, I would like to purchase some spare disks (C3724S) for disaster recovery. If I were to backup/restore using Copyutil (Support Media version 10.20) to DDS tapes off all my disks in the system; if one of my disk (boot) went bad, and then swap out the bad w/ the spare & transfer the data to the spare disk. Has anyone used this utility (copyutil) with a lot of success in such emergency?

Additionally, if I would to purchase a bigger drive other than the model mentioned above, will the Copyutil (restore) work?

We have always used frecover,fbackup, and cpio whenever there's disk crashed especially if it's your boot disk drive and it's not very effective. I had to re-install the whole hp-ux system and its volume groups again.

Any thoughts on this are greatly appreciated.

Hue

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

For disaster recovery of your boot disk, I would recommend using Ignite's 'make_recovery'.
Complete documentation, software (free), and general information is available here:

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/index.html

A search of this forum will yield numerous 'make_recovery' discussions and tips.

...JRF...

[Victor BERRIDGE]

If youre under HPUX10.20, you should go for Ignite-UX and use make_recovery.
copyutil is obsolete (my point of vue) and you would need a passwd to use it...
There are a couple of threads on the subject on this forum, use the search facility.

Best regards
Victor

[Dan Hetzel]

Hi,

I never used Copyutil...

As most sysadmins on this forum, you should use 'make_recovery' combined with 'fbackup'.

This would allow you to fully restore your system with a set of tape.

man 'make_recovery'

Dan

PS: If you don't have '/opt/ignite/bin/make_recovery', you'll have to install IGNITE from your set of CD.

[Dan Hetzel]

Hi all,

Funny to realise that we all give the same answer in About 1 minute interval.

;-)

Dan

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

Have you think in Mirror/UX?

Make mirror of your boot disk, so if boot disk crash the system will be up, and updated.

And do a make_recover anyway.

[Stefan Schulz]

If you don't want to use make_recovery you can use dd to copy this disk. If you have two identical disks there is absolutely no problem. Search the forum for dd and you'll find a lot discussions on this.

But make_recovery is the recomendet way on HP-UX