make_net_recovery quarry

[Rgomes]

Hi All,

I have 5 server( say 1,2,3,4 and 5), all running 11i. I need to do a make_net_recover for server# 5.

Pls correct my steps below:
a) in the server4,
1) mkdir -p /var/opt/ignite/recovery/archives/server5
2) chown bin:bin /var/opt/.../server5

b) in server5,

1) make_net_recovery -a server4:/var/opt/ignite/recovery/archives/server5 -v -x inc_entire=vg00

2) Now what to do. If my server5's internal root/boot disk fails, how do I boot from that archive or restore root/boot disk into new disk?

Thank you all,

richard

[Bernhard Mueller · Accepted solution]

Richard,
if you are not familiar with ignite yet, you might go for the easy solution and
on server4 run
/opt/ignite/bin/ignite
this starts a GUI
there you can select
"Add new Client for recovery"
enter server5
this prompt you if a password is needed and will also create all necessary directories and entries in /etc/exports
the only thing you will need to do in addition is enter a temporary or several dedicated IP addresses for your server5 (and maybe others)

on server5 you run
make_net_recovery -s server4 -x inc_entire=vg00

you can watch the progress in the ignite GUI.

if you need to recover server5, you enter
boot lan install at the BCH, this will boot via lan (your servers need to be in the same subnet, or you need to boot from another source) and then start interactive recovery.

Regards,
Bernhard

[Bernhard Mueller]

sorry, forgot to say the file to enter the boot IP address is /etc/opt/ignite/inst_boottab

if you have a DHCP server might not need that entry.

[Rgomes]

Hi Barnhard,

Thank you very much. Your mail helped me a lot, I browsed the ignite gui, and I think it won't be very difficult.

Thanks again,

Richard