Ignite backup

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Hi Gurus,

i have a node which is running fine ,i need to apply some patches on it .before applying i need to go for an ignite backup .unfortunately tape drive not avl on this machine ..how can i make an ignite backup of this client on a test server ..is it mandatory to install ignite product on my production server and test server ?..pls help me to get some procedure to follow >..

rgds
skr

[Tim Nelson]

Yep.. pretty much.. I suppose you can fool somehow fool make_tape_recovery. but then you are on your own and how are you going to boot from it if you need to recover ??

Install full Ignite product on a server, use interactive ignite from server or make_net_recovery from client.

If this is all new to you I would test a recovery or two as it works but if you are not familiar with it you could spend hours making it work. That would be a bummer during an emergency.

[Tingli]

Actually, there are two parts you need to be familiar with. First is the ignite and the second is the net boot up. You need to have the ignite server set up which can both do the ignite backup and as an ignite boot up server as well as the ignite restore server.

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Hi,

my intension is to make an archive on a test server B..how do i do it ?my production box (A) ..should i install ignite on both A and B and export(NFS) the var/opt/ignite of B to node A and run ignite _net_recovery from node A ???


rgds
skr

[Tim Nelson]

As noted.

Install the Ignite server software on serverB. User either the interactive menu from serverB to create an image of serverA(client) or use make_net_recovery on serverA to specify serverB as the ignite server.

The installation of Ignite will take care of most of the NFS setup.

If you think you can just set up some NFS mounts and create an archive you are way off base. You must use Ignite. Let me ask you this question again. How do you expect to boot the image from a NFS mount without ignite??

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configured and took archive