IGNITE problem

[Saurabh Kapoor_2]

Hi all,
I have a situation in frony of me where I do not understand how ignite works and at the same time wanna use it ina quick way.
Ok here we go. I have one HPUX L1000 server with HPUX 11 loaded on it and one application on it. What I wanna doo is take a complkete backup of this and store it on some tape.
This is because I wanna load another application on this server. But at the same time I want that if I want to use the first application then I should be able to reignite from the first tape recivery which I would have made.
Can someone explain me step by step procedure to do this kind of a thing.
If I do a swlist on my machine then I can see the following :
# swlist | grep -i ignite
Ignite-UX-11-00 B.3.6.82 HP-UX Installation Utilities for Installing 11.00 Systems

So I assume that IGNITE is installed.

Please comment.

Regards
Saurabh

[Misa]

Hi,

I don't think this is actually the one you want -- the one you want is product B5725AA "HP-UX Installation Utilities (Ignite-UX)".

My info is slightly out of date and will no doubt be superseded by someone else, but I'm fairly sure this will still work for you. It works for me. :)

Once you have loaded this (it's on the application CDs), you should have a command /opt/ignite/bin/make_recovery.
There's a manual page for it ("man make_recovery" if your MANPATH is set right), but here's a quick synopsis that should work:

1. Put a labelled 4mm tape in your DAT drive.
2. Log in as root and run:

make_recovery -A -v -C

This takes the entire vg00 and backs up to the default drive /dev/rmt/0m. You can change the drive being used (see man page).

You can then boot from such a tape and it will restore your vg00.

Just ask for more details.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Ignite is intended for the recovery of vg00. If you make an Ignite recovery tape and use it to reinstall your server (for instance, because of a corrupted vg00), then Ignite will automatically 'vgimport' your non-vg00 volume groups. This is one purpose and/or design feature.

It is possible to include and/or exclude additional volume groups, directories and/or files with Ignite's 'make_tape_recovery'.

*However*, if all you are doing is switching application code, I simply suggest that you backup your appliation data; (re)create the necessary filesystem for the second application and load it.

I hope that you isolate your operating system on vg00 and keep all application code in another volume group(s).

Regards!

...JRF...

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

BTW, if you wish to make a bootable Ignite recovery tape of vg00, use:

# make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -I -v -a /dev/rmt/0mn

Download the latest Ignite software and documentation from here:

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/index.html

Regards!

...JRF...

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Saurabh,

Try the ignite faq,

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/faq.html

and the sys admin guide for ignite,

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/docs/sysadm.html

Hope this helps.

regds

[Saurabh Kapoor_2]

Thanks. I found out just now that the tape drive for the L1000 is missing. Is there a way to take a dump using make_tape_recovery and then I can FTP that over to another machine. And when later we have reinstalled the tape drive then we can copy the dump to the tape....
Might sound strange but this is the tricky situation.
Regards
Saurabh

[Patrick Wallek]

If you have another HP-UX machine, you can install ignite/UX on it and use make_net_recovery, or the ignite GUI, to create a recovery image of your L1000.

After that, if your second HP-UX machine has a tape drive you can copy the make_net_recovery image to tape and make it bootable.

Details on how to do this are in /opt/ignite/share/doc/makenetrec.txt