make_net_recovery to localhost

[Eric Bakken]

Hello All,

Is it possible to set up a server to do a make_net_recovery to the local machine? I have a new blade that only has a dvd writer and no tape drive. I'd like to just make a recovery DVD but don't have the resources right now to set up a seperate Ignite server. Has anyone been able to do a make_opticaldisc_recovery to the local server? Thanks in advace,

-Eric B.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

If your system has a local NFS share and its read write, you can probably trick make_net_recovery into writing to a local file system.

localhost, probably not.

Set up an alias in /etc/hosts, yes that would probably work.

You better make sure this gets backed up or transferred some place.

SEP

[VK2COT]

Hello,

You can use make_net_recovery on the local machine. I am not sure about using
hostname "localhost" but it certainly
works for a valid hostname.

Basically, here is what happens:

Your server becomes an NFS server for itself.
I did this before and it worked fine. Ignite
saved the image in a proper directory.

I did not use make_opticaldisc_recovery
because all my servers have root volume
groups (or VxVM disk group) larger than 4
GB. Note that make_opticaldisc_recovery
still handles only single-layer DVDs (unless
something changed recently). Hence the
limit of around 4 GB.

Cheers,

VK2COT

[Tingli]

Or you can use make_sys_image.

[Eric Bakken]

Ok, I'll try these suggestions and let you know how it goes. Thanks for your help so far.

-Eric

[Ganesan R]

Hi Eric,

It is not meaningful to have make_net_recovery for local machine. There is no way to recover if the local system is down and it holds the make_net_recovery image.

[Eric Bakken]

It's meaningful if I want to make an opticaldisc recovery and make_opticaldisc_recovery used make_net_recovery.

[Eric Bakken]

I've decided to just set up an ignite server. Thanks for the suggestions everyone.