Sending an Ignite to NFS mount point

[Rootberry]

In order to create COOP scenerio I would like to have my data offsite. One way of doing this is the make_net_recovery option. Is there a way to use this on the production server and send it to an NFS mount point, that is on NAS? I am trying to avoid setting up an HP-UX ignite server, in order to get the job done...and want to avoid spinning to tape.

Thanks for Any sugesstions.

-John

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom John,

Yes, you can do make_net_recovery to an NFS mount point. As far as restoring using the image, that is the issue. You kind of need an Ignite server to use the image.

Anyway here is the command syntax.

/opt/ignite/bin/make_net_recovery -s tzfat -x inc_entire=vg00 -a jufdev:/scratch
/ignite/archives -C


The jufdev part is hitting the NFS mount point.

SEP

[Rootberry]

Thanks for the response, that was pretty much what I was looking for. A few questions I do have.

The command: is the argument tzfat the name of the server you are creating an ignite of? and obviously jufdev:/scratch is your NFS mount point that it will send the ignite image too.

opt/ignite/bin/make_net_recovery -s tzfat -x inc_entire=vg00 -a jufdev:/scratch
/ignite/archives -C


So if I did this I would basically have a tarball/ignite image. Do you know if its possible to burn this to tape and have basically an ignite tape?

Thanks Again!

[Rootberry]

To clarify...the statement, could I burn this to tape and have an ignite tape.

Meaning: In the event my server room burned down, I have the ignite image on the NAS server. Now I need to make this image useable. Would it be possible to connect a tape drive up and spool it directly to tape? I suppose I would still need to burn the ISO of the ignite to the boot record of the tape which would require a special copy program to do this anyway.

[Patrick Wallek]

Yes, you can create a bootable tape from a make_net_recovery archive. I am not sure if it still exists, but there used to be a directory of /opt/ignite/share/doc that contained a file called makenetrec.txt. That file contained instructions to create the tape from your network archive.

The latest version appears not to have that file, but the infor may be available in the iuxguide.pdf file in that same directory.

I also just found the instructions online:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90941/ch08s02.html#d0e10927

Good luck.