RAID4Si on HP-UX system

[Veron_Le]

Hi,

Currently I got an CardRAID4Si on rp5470 (HP-UX OS) to controll Disk Storage 2405.

The question is that how I can copy CardRAID configure to HDD for backup.

Thanks and appreciate all your help,

Regards,
Veron

[Suraj Singh_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You can redirect the output of "irdiag" command to a file:
# irdiag -v > raid4si.bkp

It is recommended to keep a hard copy of this output.

To find more details about this card, visit http://docs.hp.com/en/J6173-90007/ch03.html

Regards

[Veron_Le]

Dear Singh,

Thanks for your very good info.

Pls also help to provide the command how to restore RAID Config from backup file.

Thank you very much,
Veron

[Devender Khatana]

Hi Veron,

This is perhaps a hard copy of your layouts showing how allocation is done (Which Raid levels of which disks). Restoration of this is not required. Even if you need to change controller it reads the config having scan the devices as discussed in cahpter 5 of the same book under title replacing a controller.

HTH,
Devender

[Veron_Le]

Hi

You means there are no way to restore hard copy of RAID configuration, is it right?
If that, We dont need to backup config file.

Regards,
Veron

[Suraj Singh_1]

Yes, you are right, there is no way to take the backup of configuration on hard-disk. You can only take the hard-copy of the config.

Regards

[Veron_Le]

Hi Singh,

So What is the hard-copy of config for? If we can not use it to restore our RAID config in case it has been lost.

Regards,
Veron

[Suraj Singh_1]

Hi Veron,

HP recommends to keep the hard-copy of the config - if you have to restore the configuration for some reason, the hardcopy contains all of the information you will need.

Collect the configuration information by issuing this command and sending its output to either a printer or a file (to be printed later):

irdiag -v

Hope this clarifies.

Regards