HP-UX 11i v1 Installation and Update Guide, September 2005

Preparing to Install or Update to HP-UX 11i v1
Backing Up Your System
Chapter 4 65
Using make_net_recovery
The Ignite-UX server has the make_net_recovery command to create an
operating system recovery archive on another system on the network.
The archive created by make_net_recovery is specific to the system it
was created for and its identity includes host name, IP address,
networking information, and so on. In the event of root disk failure, you
use the Ignite-UX server to restore the system by installing the
operating system recovery archive.
The contents of the operating system recovery archive always includes
all files and directories that are essential to bringing up a functional
system. This essential list is predefined by make_net_recovery.
You can run make_net_recovery in its interactive mode to review the
directories and files that make up the essential list, and to add or remove
other data from the archive on a disk/volume group, file, or directory
basis.
For more information on using make_net_recovery, refer to the
make_net_recovery (1M) manpage or the Ignite-UX Administration
Guide. The guide is available on the HP-UX 11i v1 Instant Information
CD and at the HP Technical Documentation Web site:
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11iv1
You can also locate the Ignite-UX Administration Guide at the Ignite-UX
Information Library:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/IUX/infolib.html
Using make_tape_recovery
The Ignite-UX server’s make_tape_recovery command creates a
bootable operating system recovery tape for a system while it is up and
running. When a system has a logical volume layout, the recovery tape
only includes data from the root volume group, plus data from any
non-root volume group containing the /usr directory.
You can run make_tape_recovery either on the Ignite-UX server or
locally on the system from which you are trying to make an operating
system recovery tape. To create the bootable recovery tape, enter:
/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -Av
where A specifies the entire root disk or volume group and v is for
verbose mode. Also, you can specify more than one volume group with
the -x option.