HPUX 10.20: Ignite-UX make_recovery restoring to specific disk drives

[LG Porter]

Presently I have a K580 server running HPUX 10.20 (also Ignite-UX Tools Version A.3.7.95 installed); in the near future, there are plans to rearrange several of the scsi disks that are presently configured in the root vg00 group. The new disks with have a different scsi paths than what the present disks have and my question(s) is this:

A) Once the make_recovery tape is inserted into the tape drive and the server directed to boot from the tape, how can I direct the make_recovery to use specific disks?

B)In the past, the make_recovery, once started, it would run automatically unattended until finished. Does this process required interactive mode? If so, is there any documents in the ITRC or specific set of instructions outlining what steps need to be performed if interactive mode is required? ..Thanks

[Pete Randall]

You will need to interact with the recovery process. From "man make_tape_recovery:

"By default, when the systems boots
from the recovery tape it will give you 10 seconds to
interrupt the automatic recovery process in order to
interactively make modifications."


Pete

[Bernhard Mueller]

Hi,

best thing you can do is cut a fresh recovery tape using
make_tape_recovery -I -v -x inc_entrire=vg00 -a /dev/rmt/0mn
(or other *no-rewind* tape dev)

(if you persist on make_recovery:
make_recovery -i -Av -d /dev/rmt/0mn)

Then after boot you will alway be presented the "itools" screens for interactive installation/recovery where you can select/deselect disks, enlarge/decrease filesystem sizes, use vxfs instead of hfs for an old system lvol, change hostname, ip etc, etc.

Both commands will give you 10 seconds to interrupt the recovery process after boot, if you did *not* specify -I or -i.

So if you have to use a tape cut without the interactive option you can use it, but keep a close eye on the console....

Regards,
Bernhard

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Once you are ready to reinstall your system using the ignite archive, boot through the archive and interrupt the automatic procedure, go for the interacive one, select the new path where you want to reinstall OS and go from there.

Hope this helps.

Regds