OS recovery procedure from IGNITE

[gerjam]

Hi,

I need a complete documentation on how to recover OS from IGNITE tape. Please help. Thanks in advance

[Hilary Nicholson]

Hi,

I can give you the basic steps, but not complete documentation. Someone else may have a link to docs for you

Reboot server
Interrupt boot process
Search for bootable devices
Boot from the tape device

Regards,

Hilary

[Peter Leddy_1]

Hi,

Can't add much more than that, it should be as straight forward as that as long as your tape is ok. You can check the following link, it should have a bit more info on the subject in Chapter 9 and also Chapter 10 gives some troubleshooting info, hopefully you won't need that though.

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90849/B2355-90849_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90849/00/00/56-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90849/00/00/56-toc.html&searchterms=recovery%7cignite&queryid=20041029-034001

HTH,

Peter

[Borislav Perkov]

Hi,
You can find it from this thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=703579

Regards,
Borislav

[Sยภเl Kย๓คг]

Hi
Wast documentation is available on the net
However I prefer this
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11.0/#Ignite-UX

regards
SK
sunilhcl@rediffmail.com

[Paul Torp]

just put the tape in and boot.

at BCH push the key within the 10 sec limit.
type SEA


the device that come up with sequencial (something) is the tape

type BO (and the number of what it found) e.g P3

Then u can recover u'r server..
BTW if u'r / or /stand is too small or u wanna change any sizes of the lvm structure.. This is an easy way to fix it!!

Paul

[Ranjith_5 · Accepted solution]

Hi ,

SYSTEM RECOVERY USING IGNITE-UX
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The steps are as follows:

1. Download and install Ignite-UX from
< www.software.hp.com >

2. Insert a tape into your tape drive (/dev/rmt/0m) and run following command while the system has little or no activity. You might need to specify the full path leading to the command.

# make_tape_recovery -A

This is a newer command. It used to be "make_recovery -AC". The command uses /dev/rmt/0mn as the default tape device for making the recovery tape. This command backs up every file in the root disk/volume vg00 and later make it possible to use the check_recovery command, to see how much has changed on the system since the tape was made.

3. Ensure that you have a good full backup of your system. The make_tape_recovery utility was not designed to replace standard backup procedures for all your data files.

4. Review the log files:
/var/opt/ignite/logs/makrec.log1 #Logs progress reports
/var/opt/ignite/logs/makrec.log2 #Logs an Index of filesets stored on tape

In the event of a catastrophic failure of your root disk(s). Use the following procedure to recover:

1. Replace the disk(s)

2. Insert latest make_tape_recovery tape into the tape drive and boot the system.

3. Interrupt the boot process, initiate a search and boot from your tape drive.

Main Menu: search ipl
Main Menu: boot scsi.#.0

4. Don't interrupt the recovery process. Allow the recovery process to continue non-interactively.

5.Once the system boots (approx 1-2 hrs, depending on archive size), recover latest backups.

DOCS n DOWNLOAD:-
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1.) http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/docs/sysadm.html
2.) http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/infolib.html#N100E0


FAQ:-
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http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/hp/Ignite-UX_faq.html



Best Regards,
Syam