Ignite backup

[Scott Alexander_1]

I have a stand-alone development B160L with HP-UX 11.0. and an external SCSI disk array, no tape drive, no mirror sw. I'm looking to create a bootable image of the system on one of the external disks. The OS is installed all under root '\' no LVM. it is possible with Ignite?

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Yes you could use Ignite,

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=IGNITEUXB

Ignite is used to create a bootable root volume = vg00 only if your system is not to large you could create additional backups of vg01. Bear in mind that when you create large size ignite boot "tapes" the recover will take a long time.

Kind regards,

Robert-Jan.

[Steven E. Protter]

You can create archives on other machines disk with make_net_recovery

This assumes you have another machine to act as an Ignite server.

If you have a free disk of sufficient size, you can set up a filesytem on it and use make_sys_image to create a golden image of your machine on that disk.

SEP

[Zeev Schultz]

And what about old good dd?Especially when
you're not using LVM (that means no volume groups?) and I'm not sure Ignite can handle this case.Old good UNIX tools like dd,tar,cpio,fsbackup/restore then.By the way
I'm interested to know how hp-ux handle boot disk in case of no-LVM,ie where is the boot info and how its handled.

Regards,

Zeev

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,
Have a look at this thread:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x542331ec5e34d711abdc0090277a778c,00.html