IUX dual media recovery: possible to boot from local DDS and recover from SAN Lib?

[Stan_365]

Dear Sir:
if had a local CD/DVDrom it would be simple to use "boot from CD & recover from tape", but we have an RP5470 with local DDS3 driver, it is not easy to replace the internal DDS with DVD driver because of no adequate system downtime.
I prepared a bootable tape with "make_media_install -T -o 64w " and the system can boot from this tape, but it is not possible to change the installation device from internal DDS Driver to SAN tape library.
This is the IUX limitation or there is any method to solve it? The env is HP-UX 11.11 with IUX C.7.8.201.

Thanks in advance,

Stan

[Emil Velez]

you can only change to another ignite server after booting from a ignite tape.

The ability of talking to a tape library on the san would require a operating system on the host.

do a make net recovery and restore from a ignite server. It is quick and reliable.

[Stan_365]

Hi Emil,

Almost every IUX doc says that the dual media are CD + Tape. And it comes true because old IUX & Itanium based server once couldn't support tape booting directly.

Maybe it is IUX lab's resposibility to decide whether it is neccessary to add the local small tape plus SAN tape as the 2 steps recovery. And I'm not sure why they leave a entrance to prepare a bootable media in tape thru make_media_install. The command make_tape_recovery has similar function, what's the difference?

It is not true "The ability of talking to a tape library on the san would require a operating system on the host." A bootable CD created with make_media_install can enable the SAN driver for full system recovery purpose.

Anyway, thanks for your kind reply,

Stan