IGNITE

[Jeff Hagstrom]

With Ignite, can I do a make_tape_recovery from one box and install it on another box that isn't configured the same? The hard drives are of different size and cofiguration. It's in a Jamacin incloser instead of a raid. We have a test box that is similar, but not the same. This last weekend we tried to go to HP-UX 11.00 and was unsuccessful. We restored the make_tape_recovery before anything could be looked at to figure out what was wrong. The boss was more worried about the system coming up on Monday. The upgraded completed and then the system console had a system panic and rebooted. When the system came up the man pages were version 11.00 but the operating system was 10.20. We couldn't ftp or telnet, we would get an authentication error.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Jeff:

Yes, you can recover from a make_recovery_tape to a different, but similar server. In fact, this is what typically happens in off-site disaster recovery.

...JRF...

[boley janowski]

saturday before last, i used a recovery tape from a k460 (dev) and upgraded a k580 from10.20 to 11.0 (production). And no problems at all!!

make_recovery in preview mode and then modified the /var/opt/ignite/recovery/arch.include and removed most all the /dev files from the arch.include. then ran the recovery in resume mode. The 580 had three additional HP-PB lan cards and an HSC card as well (not that it matters but more cpu's and memory as well) anyway I split the 10.20 vg00 mirrors to the external disks and then ran the make_recovery to the internal disk. once this was complete the k580 complained quite abit about the additional hardware. I loaded the needed device drivers and tweeked the kernal a little. Then I imported all the other vgXX's back in and insured all the links and permissions were correct. and then turned it over to the testers. only a few problems showed up like some over looked .profiles and a couple of printer queues needed to be tweeked as well. After all was said and done the migration went well. I hope this is what you were looking for, if you want any specifics on my plan, let me know. Good Luck!!

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

See http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90704/B2355-90704_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90704/00/00/55-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90704/00/00/55-toc.html&searchterms=make_recovery&queryid=20010507-090551