Hi, I will very soon need to do a full backup of a HP c8000 machine on which HP-UX 11i v1 is running (HPUX11i-MTOE B.11.11.0412).
According to swlist, Ignite-UX C.6.1.44 is installed.
I do not have any other HP-UX machines available, so no Ignite servers.
And I'm not sure I have any way to boot the machine, should I need it.
So, I need to do a backup maybe using some network storage, and hopefully make a boot CD/DVD to boot the machine and restore the backup, just in case.
I've read most of Ignite docs, but unfortunately I cannot find the make_media_install script in the /opt/ignite/data/scripts/examples directory. Maybe the Ignite version is too old?
Do I have any hope of achieving what I need?
Any info is welcome, thanks!
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- If you have a DDS or DAT drive connected to the system , you can easily have a backup of the system with make_tape_recovery. And you ca restore the system later with this tape : Below command can be use to take the ignite tape backup:
# /opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -I -v -a /dev/rmt/0mn #[Assuming /dev/rmt/om is the tape drive device name. ]
- You can also make a bootable system image DVD depending on vg00 space.
Raj: I might be able to use a DAT, but how will I be able to boot and restore this DAT backup in case the system on the machine breaks? Sorry if the answer is obvious to you, as I wrote I'm a newbie here.
Suraj: What did you mean with your suggestion? As far as I can tell you reported some possible tape backup command lines... Again, how will I be able to boot and restore such a backup if I have no boot media for my c8000?
Viveki: Thanks, upgrading Ignite might be necessary, although I'm a bit scared of touching software installs on that machine before having a full backup of it... Can I be 100% sure that the uninstall/install will be successful? And, after installing the latest version, will I have the make_media_install script available?
Thanks Viveki, we downloaded the latest Ignite version and installed it on the machine, actually without removing the old version as the official installation docs did not recommend a swremove.
During upgrade, the install script returned an error: it could not touch the fileset "Ignite-UX.OBAM-RUN,l=/,r=C.6.1.44" because the fileset "FORTRAN.FORTRAN-PRG,l=/opt/fortran,r=B.11.00" requires it as a prerequisite (I have no idea why).
So, the upgrade was not 100% completed, but we had the make_media_install script anyway.
We also successfully installed a required pax patch.
So we proceeded with the backup, but rather than make_tape_recovery we thought that a make_sys_image was more appropriate for our needs.
And it all worked great! We got a DVD ISO image which we then burned and successfully used to restore the system on another machine.
Just for the record, we used the following command lines (more or less):
/opt/ignite/data/scripts/make_sys_image -s local -d /<backup_dir>/archives -f <file/dir_exclusions>.txt
make_media_install -a <archive_created_by_the_previous_commandline>.tgz -m /<backup_dir>/media -p /<backup_dir>
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