Ignite Bcakup to be taken on the same unix box

[ITlearner]

Hi,
I have installed Ignite on hp11v1 and i need to take backup of root VG on the same box itself rather than taking in a tape.
Please tell me the commands for HDD backup and diff in taking in a tape.

ITLearner.

[Yang Qin_1]

Hi,

1. Did you install an Ignite server on that hpux 11i v1 server?

2. Do you want to make system recovery image or you want to make a system achive backup?

3. If you want to compare tape Ignite recovery and disk Ignite recovery, here it is:
If you have a Ignite tape, when you need to recover / rebuild / clone that server, you load the tape and boot from that tape. You'll be able to install the server with local tape drive.
If you have a Ignite disk image, you have to use that image to recover / rebuild another server over the network. You can not use the image on the same server for recover or rebuild because you have to shutdown that server to rebuild.

4. if you want to make a system achive as a system backup on disk, you can use make_sys_image command. However, again, you cannot use this archive when the server itself is down.

Yang

[ITlearner]

1. yes I have installed on 11v1 server.

2.I need both and I want the diif between them.

3.ok tell me I can use "/opt/ignite/bin/make_recovery -Av" to backup the root volume group .if I take in this method will the tape is bootable or we have give any other commands to make it bootable.

4.If I need to take a ignite backup of some dir and files ehat comaand should I give?

Thanks
ITLearner.

[Yang Qin_1]

2. The difference between system recovery image and system achive is that Ignite recovery tape contain a mini OS so that you can boot from it. System achive contain all files but cannot be used to boot the system. You'll need Ignite server or tape to boot the system then use "system achive to restore the (system) files".
Both Ignite tape and Ignite disk image contain system achive -- it is second part of Ignite backup on tape.

3. On local server run "make_tape_recovery -Av -a /dev/rmt/#mn" will create a bootable Ignite recovery tape.
On local server run "make_net_recovery -b -P s -x inc_entire=vg00 -s -l #x############" will create a Ignite image on Ignite server. You can you this command to make Ignite disk image for Ignite server itself.

4. use option -x to include / exclude file/dir:

-x include=file|dir
Includes the file or directory in the recovery archive but
does not cross any mount points.

-x inc_cross=file|dir
Includes the file or directory in the recovery archive and
crosses mount points to access any directories that are
mounted or files contained in directories that are mounted.

-x inc_entire=/dev/dsk/|vg_name
Includes all file systems contained on the specified disk or
volume group. Use a block device file of the format
/dev/dsk/ when specifying a whole-disk (non-LVM) file
system. Use the volume group name (such as vg00) when you
want all file systems that are part of that LVM volume group
to be included in the archive.

-x exclude=file|dir
Excludes the file or directory from the archive. When a
directory is specified, no files beneath that directory will
be stored in the archive.

Yang