Dumping the operating system

[Virginia OToole]

Hi,

A colleague of mine told me about a command in Sun that does an operating system dump. It is call ufsdump. I was wondering is there is an equivalent in HP.

We are formulating a disaster recovery plan and I thought that this might be the way to go.

If anyone could let me know of a place that I could go to read about this, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!
Ginny

[Volker Borowski · Accepted solution]

Hello,

"ignite" should be the weapon of your choice.
Do a search in this forums with "ignite" and you will get plenty of stuff.

Volker

[melvyn burnard]

Hmm, how would anm OS dump help Disaster Recovery Planning?
I assume you mean you are looking for some way fo getting all the system info ready to use for DR?
If so, take a look at the Ignite/UX software product available for free (yes FREE) from HP at
http://software.hp.com

You could also take a look at the http://come.to/cfg2html
site and use this to create information pages of how the system(s) are installed and setup.
HTH

[Patrick Wallek]

There is no 'ufsdump' in HP. ufsdump is for ufs filesystems on a Solaris.

If you are looking to back up your OS on the HP-UX boxes, have a look at Ignite/UX. ( http://software.hp.com/products/IUX ) It is a FREE product that allows you to create a BOOTABLE tape of your entire VG00 (boot) volume group.

It is an extremely handy utility that no one in an HP-UX environment should be without.

[Eileen Millen]

There is a free product called Ignite.
It is available on the application CDs.
You should get the latest one from the HP web site.
http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX

It contains a make_net_recovery and a make_tape_recovery that will allow you to
archive the Operating System.
You can also take a Golden Image of one system and install that image onto another system of the same model type.

Eileen

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Virginia,

On a n class server, you can login into GSP and then type TC to take an ammediate memory dump. This will a user induced TOC (system crash). If you want to regenerate the last dump for analysis, you can do so by using savecrash -vr. This will create the crash files for the last crash in /var/adm/crash provided the last crash files were saved on the dump device.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Here is some helpful reading for you on crash dumps,

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=34cee9eb12de48987b/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=400000000123568

Hope this helps.

Regds