what files i must copy to clone a server qith hpux 11i??

[Santiago Flores]

Hi all...

I have two HP9000 servers with HPUX 11i, one of them is on production and the other is new, they are the same model and i have to configure the new server like the old one.

I know that i have to do manually the VG's and LV's, but i want to know if the users accounts and kernel configuration can be copied directly.

Thanks for your answers...

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

As John said, use ignite:
http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/download.html

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harry

[John Poff]

Hi,

You need to get Ignite-UX. It is free, and it will allow you to clone your system easily and pretty painlessly.

JP

[monasingh_1]

Yes, use ignite as suggested for taking an OS archive of the source system. And use this tape for the target system, you can change IP,hostname,filesystems etc on the target system while installing.

You can go to docs.hp.com for manuals for ignite...

cheers..

[Santiago Flores]

Do you know another way without using ignite??

[Patrick Wallek]

There's no other real easy way to clone a server, no. Ignite is by far the best and easiest option. Ignite/UX is FREE. http://software.hp.com/products/IUX/

You can create a make_tape_recovery tape while the system is up and running and users are doing stuff.

[John Poff]

There is another way without using Ignite, but it is so hard and painful that you'll wish you had never tried it.

Get Ignite-UX. It's free, and it's easy. If you did a standard cold install of 11i on your boxes you might already have it on there. With Ignite-UX you'll have your system cloned and be done in less time than it would take to even begin figuring out which files you need to do it manually.

If you already have the systems fairly closely configured to match each other, you might get by with just setting up the user accounts and matching the kernel parameters. Still, if they really, really need to be identical, Ignite-UX is the way to go.

JP

[harry d brown jr]

You could manually clone the system by installing everything the exact same way, or use the free IGNITE software.

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harry

[Santiago Flores]

All your answers were usefull, but i had only 50 MB free in my old system HDD (very dangerous), and ignite uses 50MB only for download and 105 MB installed.
I need the original configuration in my new server (which have more HDD's)so i will copy the next files

/.profile
/etc/profile
/etc/group
/etc/hosts
/etc/inetd.conf
/etc/inittab
/etc/nsswitch
/etc/ntp.conf
/etc/inittab
/etc/passwd
/etc/rc.config.d/netconf
/etc/services
/var/adm/cron/*.allow

I will addition more space for some logical volumes, so i must not to export the original volume groups.

Do you have any suggestion??

[Santiago Flores]

I did the things i mention before with a modification and the server has been working well one month.

I didn't cipy directly the files, instead i edit the original files in my new server adding in them the values of the old server, i only added the values that weren't listed in the original files.

Then i added the printer's scripts from the /etc/var/spool/lp/* in the old server to the corresponding directory in the new server

The only thing i had to eraise was a line in the inittab because a demon in the other configuration was trying to run programs in the new server, and it maked too much retries to do this action.

Good luck