Make tape and net recovery

[Anuraag]

Hi,

I wanted to test the make_tape_recovery and make_net_recovery procedures on out HP-UX 11.23 systems. I am looking out for the detail steps for the same. The machine has the OS installed and the boot disk is mirrored.

First I plan to do make_net_recovery and store the image in one of our other HP-UX machines.

Then I plan to break the boot disk mirror so that a disk is having boot disk in shape. (I dont know the steps for the same.
Then I plan to delete /stand on the boot disk and recover it from the image stored by make_net_recovery.
The same thing I want to test with make_tape_recovery.
Can anyone please give me some more detailed steps and also verify whether these steps are correct?

[Bob E Campbell]

You do not need to remove anything from the target disk. In each of the recovery cases the disk to be recovered will be rebuilt down to the file systems.

It will be easiest if you use the inactive half of the mirror as your "scratch" disk and leave your original image bootable. Look into the bootsys command and the net recovery image as your quickest and simplest options.

[Wouter Jagers]

Hi,

This chapter from the ignite admin guide explains the steps required to create and restore recovery images:

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/5991-6440/ch12s02.html#bgheaffb

Personally I wouldn't break boot disk mirrors while testing an ignite recovery, though: There's the hardware-change, and it shouldn't be a likely situation in 'real life' either. But that's just me :)

Cheers,
Wout