Ignite-UX Administration Guide (B3921-90077, March 2013)
Put two HP-UX 11i v2 golden archives, one Itanium-based and one PA-RISC, on a DVD....184
Create a recovery DVD...........................................................................................184
Create an HP-UX 11i v2 Itanium-based recovery DVD using an existing network recovery
image...................................................................................................................184
Error messages...........................................................................................................184
No DVD available..................................................................................................184
No DVD special files...............................................................................................185
Missing -c argument on HP-UX 11i v2 USB DVD drive..................................................185
Depot-Based DVDs...........................................................................................................185
HP-UX 11i v2 Depot-Based Installation DVDs...................................................................185
HP-UX 11i v3 Depot-Based Installation DVDs...................................................................187
15 Recovery..............................................................................................188
Overview............................................................................................................................188
System Recovery...................................................................................................................188
System Recovery Tools......................................................................................................189
Recovery Tool Comparison...........................................................................................189
Considerations When Using Veritas Volume Manager from Symantec................................190
Recovery Image Contents..................................................................................................190
Recovery Image Configuration Policies................................................................................191
Reconciling Client and Server Ignite-UX Versions for Recovery................................................191
Recovery Image Creation Process.......................................................................................192
Examining Recovery Image Contents.............................................................................194
Verifying Recovery Image Results...................................................................................196
Creating and Using Recovery Tapes...................................................................................197
Recovery Tape Creation Examples.................................................................................197
Tape Recovery for PA-RISC Systems................................................................................198
Tape Recovery for Itanium-Based Systems.......................................................................199
Tape Recovery for Integrity Blade Systems.......................................................................204
Creating and Using Network Recovery Images....................................................................205
Adding Clients for Recovery ........................................................................................206
Examples of Network Recovery Image Creation..............................................................208
Recovering using the Network for PA-RISC Clients............................................................208
Recovering using the Network for Itanium-Based Clients...................................................209
Retaining Recovery Images................................................................................................210
Making Recovery Configuration File Additions.....................................................................212
Using the recovery config.local file................................................................................212
Adding a depot..........................................................................................................212
Selecting File Systems During Recovery...............................................................................212
Tape Recovery With No Tape Boot Support — Two-Step Media Recovery...............................213
Notes on Cloning Systems.................................................................................................214
Cloning a System Using make_net_recovery...................................................................215
System Recovery Questions and Answers............................................................................216
16 Support and Other Resources.................................................................220
Contacting HP......................................................................................................................220
Before you contact HP......................................................................................................220
HP contact information.....................................................................................................220
Documentation feedback..................................................................................................220
Related information...............................................................................................................220
Documents......................................................................................................................220
Websites........................................................................................................................221
Typographic Conventions.......................................................................................................222
A Troubleshooting ....................................................................................224
Errors and Warnings.............................................................................................................224
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