make_recovery on distant tape drive

[System and Database]

Hello,

I've installed an HP-UX server which doesn't have a tape drive. I would like to have a system backup and I don't know how to do it.

Is it possible to use the tape drive from another HP-UX system to use the make_recovery command ? Would it then be possible to recover the system after a crash ? Do you have another method ?

Thanks in advance for any input.

Tom

[Helen French · Accepted solution]

One solution would be to use make_net_recovery. Install the latest Ignite-UX and then you can start using this utility. This tool is meant for network recovery and archive creation:

# man make_net_recovery.

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Use make_net_recovery. It is similar to make_tape_recovery but uses Lan instead of local tape drive to recover a system.

I good doc is available in /opt/ignite/share/doc/makenetrec.txt
also see in man pages for make_net_recovery

-USA..

[GK_5]

make_net_recovery is the way to go.

[System and Database]

Thank you all for your answers !

[Charles Holland]

Tom,
Make_net_recovery is a great tool, I guess.
Through trial and error, and a lot of suggestions from other forums, it REALLY is dependant if the system can boot from the network. I set up a Ignite server on an L box, and was able to do make_net_recovery from an E series to it.
Pit falls I found out along the way.....
1. it ONLY uses the built in lan card. If you have a built in 10 MB NIC card but a 100 MB NIC and on card it used the 10MB card.
2. AND most important. The server you are trying to restore HAS to be able to boot through that internal NIC card to the server. This is really where my process stopped, because the E box would/could not find the Ignite server through the lan.

BTW after you use make_net_recovery you can create an actual tape for the particular server on the Ignite server.... given that it has a tape drive itself.