Remote Make Recovery

[Marcelo F. P. Junior]

Hi,

in my work, i need to do make_recovery in more of 400 HP-UXs machines, my doubt is if possible to I create a Ignite server in a Server A and execute the make_recovery of my machines to write in the Tape Drive of my Ignite Server in Server A. If not possible there is another solution???

[Fabian Briseño]

Hello marcelo.
If I understand correctly, Marcelo if you have enough disk space, you can create an ignite server and do a make_net_recovery and this will create the images of every HPUX box you got in the ignite server.

[Marcelo F. P. Junior]

Sorry,

but I don`t have space in my Ignite Server, my doubt is if it`s possible uses my Tape Drive in Ignite Server to make a makerecovery of a remote machine.

Tks

Marcelo

[Bill Hassell]

Not possible. There is no such thing as a remote tape drive, which is why Ignite has a network option. You either need 400 tape drives, or a few dozen portable drives, or buy the disk space needed to do this over the network. 400 machines is a massive requirement and you will likely need a dedicated server to perform the task. From a practical point of view, 400 machines x 2 hrs = 800 hrs = 33 days to backup everything one time. You probably need to step back and rethink this project. Think in terms of 1000 Base/T backbone and terabytes of data (400 machines x 10Gb = 4Tb).

[Marcelo F. P. Junior]

Yeah,

but it possible to I make with the image created with make_net_recovery a tape like a make _recovery( bootable and with the image ) manually in Ignite Server???

[Emil Velez]

if you review the ignite FAQ file that is on your ignite server. It should show you how to copy utilities and the ignite image to a tape after creating it on the ignite server.

That FAQ file is invaluable and will make you successful with ignite.

Good luck

[Jollyjet]

Marcelo,

First take a survey of your machines which has same directory structures with same software and same version for all this server's you can use the same ignite tape to restore the os in all the machines if you have any kernel changes take a seprate ignite for that particular machine ignite will not restore data it help you to restore the os with the updated patches and modification you made so the maximum bakup might be 20 to 50 i feel prepare a document in excel sheet by differentiating the server's that will make you work low and save your time.