Ignite Server Recovery

[Michael Wehr]

We are running

IGNITE C.7.4.157 HP-UX Installation Utilities (Ignite-UX)

on HP-UX B.11.11 and B.11.31

Currently our Ignite-UX server is also our Data Protector Enterprise backup server. To recover any other system on our network (i.e. during DR), we need to recover our backup server first. Therefore, the Ignite of our backup server is currently to an LTO3 tape drive. The primary volume group (vg00) on our backup server is 50GB of used disk space.

We are trying to determine the fastest method of recovering our backup server. We have considered using a 64GB USB Flash drive, but it is not supported by HP-UX. We have considered using a third mirror drive, but that doesn't account for the new hardware the backup server would be recovered to during DR.

Can you please offer workable suggestions of the fastest way to recover our backup server from and Ignite-UX image?

[Mel Burslan]

50 GB on vg00 is a little bit of overkill in my opinion. I am sure you have syuffed a lot of Data Protector related filesystems, especially the database into vg00. This is not a good idea. The best way would be to have 2-3 GB small vg00 which would be restored even from the slowest tape drive in a matter of minutes not hours and then if the vg00 image is that small, you could even burn it to a DVD ROM, which would make your recovery time even faster. Then restoring of the extraneous volume groups from a set of optical media, such as burnable DVD's using a primitive backup method, like fbackup or even with tar/cpio, which would not take too long either, would be a better way of doing what you are after.

My 2 cents.