Ignite & clone backup

[Taulant Shamo]

Hello,

My sytsem is HPUX 11i.
Ignite backup means to get make_tape_recovery ?

What is clone backup ? How can I get that?

Thank you.
Taulant

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

An Ignite backup can be taken with either make_tape_recovery (to a tape drive) or make_net_recovery (to another machine on the network, an Ignite Server).

I think you could also consider an Ignite backup a clone backup. Ignite does allow you to essentially "clone" a system. By that I mean you can an Ignite backup from one machine, restore it to another similar machine (changing IP address and hostname) and now you have an almost exact "clone" of the machine the Ignite was taken from.

[Steven E. Protter]

make_tape_recovery is an Ignite clone backup using tape.

It can be used to recover the system that made the tape. It can be used to clone that system to another system with similar hardware.

Ignite Golden Image allows you to create a software and configuration image that is somewhat less hardware specific. You use make_sys_image on a system configured exactly the way you wish to create an arcive image.

After some configuration you can boot a system off the Ignite Golden image server and use that image to close the Ignite golden image, with some modifications to other systems that do not have to have similar hardware.

docs:
http://www6.itrc.hp.com/service/james/dispDoc.do?docURL=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.hp.com%2Fen%2FB2355-90872%2Fch05s01.html&aid=SEARCH_MANUAL&pil=2&serStr=Ignire+Golden+Image
http://www6.itrc.hp.com/service/james/dispDoc.do?docURL=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.hp.com%2Fen%2FB2355-90872%2Fch05s03.html&aid=SEARCH_MANUAL&pil=8&serStr=Ignire+Golden+Image


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[Taulant Shamo]

Thank you both.

Taulant