Making a boot DVD for restoring, Ignite newbie

[Marco DV]

Hi, I will very soon need to do a full backup of a HP c8000 machine on which HP-UX 11i v1 is running (HPUX11i-MTOE B.11.11.0412).
According to swlist, Ignite-UX C.6.1.44 is installed.

I do not have any other HP-UX machines available, so no Ignite servers.
And I'm not sure I have any way to boot the machine, should I need it.
So, I need to do a backup maybe using some network storage, and hopefully make a boot CD/DVD to boot the machine and restore the backup, just in case.

I've read most of Ignite docs, but unfortunately I cannot find the make_media_install script in the /opt/ignite/data/scripts/examples directory. Maybe the Ignite version is too old?

Do I have any hope of achieving what I need?
Any info is welcome, thanks!

[Raj D.]

Marco,


- If you have a DDS or DAT drive connected to the system , you can easily have a backup of the system with make_tape_recovery. And you ca restore the system later with this tape : Below command can be use to take the ignite tape backup:

# /opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -I -v -a /dev/rmt/0mn
#[Assuming /dev/rmt/om is the tape drive device name. ]




- You can also make a bootable system image DVD depending on vg00 space.

Check out few links:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1127321

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=209360




Cheers,
Raj.

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,

# /opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -Av -a /dev/rmt/0mn #0mn remember n here

# make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -x inc_entire=vg01 -x exclude=/tmp

â ¢ Files/Directories
-x include=
-x inc_cross=
-x exclude=

â ¢ Disks/Volume Groups
-x inc_entire=|/dev/dsk/

/var/opt/ignite/recovery/latest #You can preview what processing would take place


Suraj

[Viveki · Accepted solution]

Hi Marco,

Please upgrade the ignite to latest first. The link is given below:

http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=IGNITEUXB

I would prefer a remove-install method to an upgrade in this activity.

Then you can go ahead with the suggestions on the top of this post

[Ifan Artha]

Hi All,

Anyone knows, how to run make_tape_recovery in background?

Is it possible to run this command in background? how?
make_tape_recovery â v â x inc_entire=vg00 â a /dev/rmt/c?t?d0xxxx

Thanks,
Ifan

[Marco DV]

Raj:
I might be able to use a DAT, but how will I be able to boot and restore this DAT backup in case the system on the machine breaks?
Sorry if the answer is obvious to you, as I wrote I'm a newbie here.

Suraj:
What did you mean with your suggestion? As far as I can tell you reported some possible tape backup command lines... Again, how will I be able to boot and restore such a backup if I have no boot media for my c8000?

Viveki:
Thanks, upgrading Ignite might be necessary, although I'm a bit scared of touching software installs on that machine before having a full backup of it... Can I be 100% sure that the uninstall/install will be successful?
And, after installing the latest version, will I have the make_media_install script available?

Thank you all.

[Viveki]

Yes Marco, I believe yout ignite version is bit old and thus you have the issue.

By the way, I found another thread and this may be helpful to you.

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1022206

[Marco DV]

Thanks Viveki, we downloaded the latest Ignite version and installed it on the machine, actually without removing the old version as the official installation docs did not recommend a swremove.

During upgrade, the install script returned an error: it could not touch the fileset "Ignite-UX.OBAM-RUN,l=/,r=C.6.1.44" because the fileset "FORTRAN.FORTRAN-PRG,l=/opt/fortran,r=B.11.00" requires it as a prerequisite (I have no idea why).

So, the upgrade was not 100% completed, but we had the make_media_install script anyway.

We also successfully installed a required pax patch.

So we proceeded with the backup, but rather than make_tape_recovery we thought that a make_sys_image was more appropriate for our needs.

And it all worked great! We got a DVD ISO image which we then burned and successfully used to restore the system on another machine.

Just for the record, we used the following command lines (more or less):

/opt/ignite/data/scripts/make_sys_image -s local -d //archives -f .txt

make_media_install -a .tgz -m //media -p /

[Dennis Handly]

>it could not touch the fileset Ignite-UX.OBAM-RUN because the fileset FORTRAN.FORTRAN-PRG requires it as a prerequisite (I have no idea why).

Yes, this doesn't make sense.