Ignite UX

[djoshi]

Hello All,

I just wanted to make the image of my HP-UX 11 OS to the tape device. There is one legacy application(pi-open) is also running on this server.

Can anyone help me to understand the difference between creating a image with make_sys_image and make_tape_recovery command?

Secondly, will after restore from image everything will work fine as it was before?
Please help me to understand.

Thanks,

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

make_tape_recovery is a wrapper that does make_sys_image commands correctly.

For backups, use make_tape_recovery

make_sys_image with other options can create golden images and other types of Ignite backups.

SEP

[djoshi]

Thx SEP!!!

Which one you would advice to take the image of my OS backup? so that If I restore it later on, system and all applications will work as it was before taking the image.

Thx,

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

make_tape_recovery

mikap

[EricStahl]

make_tape_recovery, or make_net_recovery if you have IUX installed and configured as an IUX server on your network.

To create a recovery archive to local tape that includes the complete root volume group (vg00) as well as the complete vg01 volume group (assuming that you had a vg01 configured):

# make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -x inc_entire=vg01

[Don Mallory]

I always like to explicity identify the tape drive and to create the loader as an interactive interface.

The command format would be:

make_tape_recovery -Iv -a /dev/rmt/0m -x inc_entire=vg00

-I is create interactive
-v is verbose (always nice)
-a is the tape device, note that I did not use 0mn - this would rewind and overwrite the bootloader written to the tape.
-x inc_entire=vg00. Very important, especially if you don't want vg01, or others.

You could also use -A instead of -x inc_entire=vg00, it would do everything on the system.

To test, rewind the tape (mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn rew), the fast forward over the bootloader (mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn fsf 1) and you can re-read with tar now. (tar tvf /dev/rmt/0m).

Note that with PA systems, it's one fast forward, with IA systems, my memory may be escaping me, but I think it's 6, as there are more subsections to the bootloader partitioning scheme. I have a note somewhere, but it's not handy at the moment.

Best regards,
Don

[djoshi]

Thank you all for such a wonderful advice.

Thanks,