What version of Ignite-UX needed for 10.20

[TechC]

Hello,
Thank you in advance as I know HP-UX 10.20 is long since unsupported. However I need some guidance. I have a 10.20 machine that I need to create a recovery tape for. I have the following depot files..

Ignite-UX-10-20-A-3-2-45.depot
Ignite-UX-10-20-B-5-4-50.depot

I have been reading on different ITRC posts that the B-4-50 depot is for client only and that a make_tape_recovery command will not work with this version. Now it mentions the 11.0 B-5-4-50 depot and not sure if it differs from the 10.20 B-5-4-50 depot. Is this true that B-5-4-50 is no good for 10.20? If not can I use the A-3-2-45 depot to install and to create a make_tape_recovery archive tape?

Thank you

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

The B.5.4.x version would be the last version supporting 10.20. See:

http://docs.hp.com/en/IUX/docs/Supported_Versions.pdf

Regards!

...JRF...

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

If you have a depot named:
Ignite-UX-10-20-B-5-4-50.depot

Then either its been manually re-named or it will work with 10.20

There is no harm in installing it and trying it.

The version listed above was released before 10.20 went out of support.

So it is probably fine.

SEP

[TechC]

Hello list, another question regarding Ignite-UX on 10.20. I was able to install the
the A-3-2-45 depot.

I want to make a recovery archive tape, I have the following lvols in my fstab. I would like to exclude /dev/vg00/lvol10 as it should not be in vg00 anyway and contains no critical data in regards to the OS. It is 20 GB. Also I can exclude /dev/vg01/lvol1 for the same reason. From reading the make_recovery man page the way to exclude directories is to run make_recovery -A -p -d /dev/rmt/c0t1d1BESTn. This should create the
/var/opt/ignite/recovery/arch.include file. From there I can delete the directories I want to exclude. Problem is this file gets so huge that it fills /var before the make_recovery command above completes. I believe this is due to the 20GB lvol10 having so many files.
Is there a way to exclude the /dev/vg00/lvol10 and /dev/vg01/lvol1 mount points from the make_recovery archive from the command line? Or perhaps there is another way to get around tis. Again these directories contain no critical files, no OS files.

Thank you

/dev/vg00/lvol3 143360 36164 102346

/dev/vg00/lvol1 83733 40049 35310

/dev/vg00/lvol9 512000 403510 101768

/dev/vg00/lvol8 667648 449079 204967

/dev/vg00/lvol7 65536 4359 60295

/dev/vg01/lvol1 34062521 3145507 27510761

/dev/vg00/lvol6 892928 152076 694599

/dev/vg00/lvol5 20480 5231 14388

/dev/vg00/lvol10 22679552 20194952 2484600

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

If you want to exclude portions of vg00, use the '-x exclude' arguments to 'make_tape_recovery'. The 'A' version is very old, so check the 'make_tape_recovery' manpages which should have been installed for the option's availablity. You want something like:

# /opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -x exclude lvol10mountpoint -I -v -a /dev/rmt/0mn

Regards!

...JRF...

[Ganesan R]

Hi James,

I am not sure. But I believe -x and exclude options are not there with make_recovery command. It is available only with make_tape_recovery. You may have to use -p and -r options to exclue the directoires.

Or you can unmount the the filesystem and remove the entry from fstab then try backup. By default not root volume groups will not be backed up.

[Ganesan R]

Hi,

Got some quote from one old doc.


The system-recovery tape consists of a boot image, followed by an archive
of system files that comprise a minimum core OS. The minimum core OS
consists of /stand, /sbin, /dev, /etc, and subsets of /usr, /opt and
/var that are required during the install process. The devices or volume
groups that correspond to the file systems/directories /, /dev, /etc,
/sbin, /stand, and /usr are considered core devices or volume groups.
These devices or volume groups are recreated during the recovery
process. All non-OS data on them would be removed and restored during
the recovery process, if they were specifically appended to the recovery
tape. If /usr, /opt or /var are mounted elsewhere, they would not be
re-installed during the recovery process, and are fully preserved.
The make_recovery command provides a mechanism for you to specify
your own non-system files in the archive by using the
/var/adm/makrec.append file. These specifications are limited to files
or directories that belong to file systems in the core devices or volume
groups.
The make_recovery command also provides a mechanism for you to
exclude selected files from the archive via the -p and -r options. For
backing-up and recovering non-core file systems which are not on the
core device or volume groups, you would use normal backup utilities.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

> Ganessan: Hi James, I am not sure. But I believe -x and exclude options are not there with make_recovery command. It is available only with make_tape_recovery.

The author stated that, "I want to make a recovery archive tape", hence 'make_tape_recovery' and a pointer to the manpages :-)

Regards!

...JRF...

[Ganesan R]

Hi James R Ferqusen,

Infact I intend to write first name of the question auther James Chavez. Since your first name is also same it make this confusion. Anyway I should have avoided the first name and used the full name instead :)-

Hope now I cleared the confusion...

[TechC]

Thank you James and Ganesan.
James , I did in fact try to install the B depot for the Ignite-UX software. It gave the error that there was no compatible software.
That is the reason for my wording in the original post with the make_recovery -A -p -d options.
However reading through your post I looked in /opt/ignite/bin and I see that both make_recovery and make_tape_recovery available.
For my 11.11 boxes I use the make_tape_recovery command with the -x inc_entire= syntax.
So what I am going to try and do is to use make_tape_recovery and try and exclude the unwanted lvols on this 10.20 box and hopefully that will do the trick.

Thanks again