Recover system from Ignite archive

[Igor Sovin]

Hi!
Is it possible to recover host from ignite net archive if I have only archive file without any configuration information about client on Ignite server?

[Fabian Briseño]

hello Igor.

It should be possible.

check this thread for more info

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=37058

[Igor Sovin]

Hello Fabian!

thanx for link, but I have network recvery archive not tape.

[Fabian Briseño]

hello Igor.

assuming that you didnt use the -m option to do your ignite net recovery backup

then the file image is in tar format

do a man make_net_recovery for more info.


Try this thread for imformation on extracting a spefic file from a tar file

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=132348

[Tim Nelson]

If the ignite versions have not been changed then you can do the following.

restore the Ignite image to the ignite server.
/var/opt/ignite/recovery/archives/new_system_name
make sure all dirs and files from the restore are bin:bin

in /var/opt/ignite/clients
create the 0xLLA directory ( the MAC address of the server to be recovered )
chown bin:bin 0xLLA
ln -s 0xLLA new_system_name

cd to some other system_name
find INDEX recovery|cpio -pmdv ../new_system_name ( the one just created above ).

cd to /var/opt/clients/new_system_name/recovery/latest
edit the archive_cfg file and change the nfs_source= to point to the above restored archive.

Make sure to add this new server to the /etc/exports and /etc/hosts file.

Boot the new server from the ignite server, it should automatically find the restored archive.

[Igor Sovin]

Done it.
but after starting recovery on client I recovered the Default HP-UX 11i Operating system, my data from new_clients network archive has not been recovered.