Good Backup

[Jim Hoy]

I have made a make-recovery and did an fbackup of the file system. I want to really trash the system, so I can test my plan. I should note this is my test box. Any ideas???

Thank you,

[John Palmer]

Hi Jim,

It seems that you have backed up everything. How much impact will it have if you can't recover the server from the backup? It might be prudent to take a further full fbackup to cover yourself in the event of tape failure.

How many disks do you have? If I was cautious then I would remove my non-root volume groups with vgexport then reboot from the ignite tape and recover to one of my old data disks. If this exercise failed then I could still boot from my original disk, review the problem and maybe do another make_recovery. That way you could test your plan without burning all your bridges. It does depend on how expendable the server is though.

Regards,
John

[Eileen Millen]

You could just put in a new disk and boot from the make_recovery tape.
I used mediainit to wipe out the files on a disk and then did the make_recovery to it.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Depending on just how far you want to go...

1. Verify the recovery tape (see below) and frevover a data file from a non-root volume group to verify your procedures there.

2. Boot from the Ignite tape but stop when it offers to destroy your existing OS.

3. Actually do a reinstallation of the OS and of all your data files just as if the server had been physically destroyed.

Check out this link for more information on suggestion-1 above:

http://my1.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x2c6e7e990647d4118fee0090279cd0f9,00.html

Good luck.

...JRF...