Recovering an hpux 10.20 system with copyutil

[Osunkoya Olugbenga Davi]

I have a copyutil media that was done on this system that I want to recover, How do I start it up so as to recover the system?

I have tried to boot with it, but it is complaining of the bootlif.

[Geoff Wild]

You can not boot from tape - you have to boot from a cd or support tape, then lauch the copyutil and do a restore.


Copyutil -
OK, so now you need to restore from the backup tape that you created using copyutil and stored away for just this situation. Let's pretend that the boot drive is bad and has to be replaced.

Remember that there may be a difference between the data on the tape and the data that was on the disk. Just how much of a difference depends on how long ago the tape was made.

Boot or reboot the system with the Support tape in the tape drive. Make sure that the Support tape you use is for the same version of HP-UX that's installed on the computer. Don't use a version 10.10 Support tape on a version 10.10 computer.


Remove the bad disk and replace with a good one of the same size and type.


Follow the instructions in the copyutil section above to get to a COPYUTIL> prompt. From this prompt enter backup and give the index numbers for the tape and disk. Remove the Support tape and replace it with the backup tape. At the Ready to continue? question say y and let the system put everything on the new disk.


When complete you can exit the program and boot into the new drive. It says here, in fine print, that the new boot disk will work perfectly. Believe it or not.

Rgds...Geoff

[Osunkoya Olugbenga Davi]

I have tried to boot with the Support CD for the hpux 10.20, this takes me to the ISL prompt.

Where do I go from here?

[Howard Marshall]

from the isl prompt start the support cd with [700|800] support depending on your hardware. if its 800 series or 700 series

ISL> 800support

that will start the recovery kernel then to get to the recovery menu or a prompt select start recovery shell

H

[Geoff Wild]

Well - from the ISL prompt:

ode copyutil

[melvyn burnard]

copyutil is not the ideal tool to use for system recovery, but as you have a copyutil backup, take a read of this, it may help you

http://docs.hp.com/en/B6191-90015/apas02.html#d0e3694