Losing Logical Volumes after an Ignite

[Jan Bray]

Hi,
I am backing up a system using Ignite and restoring it from CD. To create/restore the images, I am using make_sys_image for the first CD and gtar for the rest. During the restore of the first CD, I noticed that only the logical volumes on the first CD are retained. When I attempt to load the 2nd CD, it writes it to the / volume and eventually I run out of disk space.
In an attempt to solve this problem, I kept the logical volumes and the filesystem on the first CD, but put all of the other files in make_sys_image (Level_2_NORESET)ex. /COTS/file1, etc. On the first CD, I left /COTS/lost+found (and all other logical volumes in this manner that would not fit on the first CD). I commented out the /etc/lvmtab and /etc/lvmconf entries in make_sys_image.
I have also added an entry in os_arch_post_l to extend the logical volumes and the filesystems. This produced the error "cannot find the logical volume" or "logical volume is mounted; cannot extend.."

A third piece of information - When I examined the .impacts file, the sizes are very different from the results of bdf (KB vs. MB and much smaller). What is going on here?
Thanks for any information.

Jan

[harry d brown jr]

This needs to be moved to ignite-ux section.

You need to save and restore the Volume Group info:

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90772/ch11s05.html

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harry d brown jr

[Jan Bray]

Does this apply if I am not using make_net_recovery? I am calling make_sys_image from a script on a local machine.

Thanks,

Jan

[harry d brown jr]

If you aren't saving and restoring VG information, then you have to somehow rebuild them. And if you are using this to clone systems, then you might have a lot more issues with LUNS.

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harry d brown jr

[Jan Bray]

Is there specific information available that addresses this issue when creating backup media on CD? I.e. a system_cfg file, etc?

Thanks,

Jan