How to make a bootable Backup?

[Benjamin Gawert_3]

I have a 712/100 running 9.04 and a HP 35470A DDS-Drive. I now want to make a
bootable backup on a DAT-Tape that allowes an user after an HD replacement to
boot from it and to restore the complete HD structure, similar like mksysbckup
in AIX. Is that possible? And if yes, how?

Benjamin

[Randy Mather]

see if there is a version of IGNITE for your system OS level. Otherwise you
have to boot single user, and perform a dd copy of the hard drive. I am not
sure what the steps are involved to do this, but there is probably a man page
for it. Check out IGNITE first.

[Benjamin Gawert_3]

Well, I have no IGNITE for 9.04, and I don?t know where to get it. Making a
copy with dd would bring me a bootable tape? Otherwise I can?t restore the
content without the installation media. Same with mkrs: I can boot from a
mkrs-Tape, but can?t access my DAT-Drive. And I haven?t found a way to make a
mkrs-tape with custom file content and/or kernel...

Benjamin

[Melvyn Burnard_1]

9.04 HP-UX does not run on a workstation, in your case a 712.
the OS version would be an odd number as the last digit, e.g. 9.05
mkrs is the best way to make a recovery tape on a workstation at 9.0x, as
there is NO version of Ignite/UX for 9.x.
There is no way I know of to modify any of the settings when you do cvreate the
mkrs tape, as it is only meant to be used to do exactly as it name suggests,
recovery of the system.
There is another method that could be used, but this requires your system to be
down, and the Diagnostic or Support Media, and that is the copyutil utility,
but again you have no control over what it copies.

[Andreas Voss_2]

Hello,

you are looking for a disaster backup method for HP-UX 9.0x.

Here is my solution:

Create a bootable section to the tape:

dd if=/usr/lib/uxbootlf.700 of=/dev/rmt/0mn bs=2k

Copy the entire disk image to the tape:

dd if=/dev/rdsk/c201d6s0 of=/dev/rmt/0m bs=64k

Note: The disk device depends on your system.
You must use the norewind device when creating
then boot image.
This procedure works if you replace the disk with a new one that has the same
or bigger size.

I've got this information from the hpux_700 man page.

Hope this helps you