HP-UX 11i Version 1 Installation and Update Guide, December 2004

Preparing to Install or Update to HP-UX 11i v1
Backing Up Your System
Chapter 470
Task 2: Creating an Operating System Recovery
Archive
To protect your data, create an operating system recovery archive to be
used in the event of a system crash. The Ignite-UX server has two
commands you can use to create an operating system recovery archive:
• make_net_recovery
Use this command to create an operating system recovery archive on
another system on the network.
• make_tape_recovery
Use this command to create an operating system recovery archive on
a bootable recovery tape for an LVM or whole disk file system while it
is up and running.
NOTE The Ignite-UX recovery commands only back up the Operating System
files and not your data files.
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 include 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 also to add or
remove other data from the archive on a disk/volume group, file, or
directory basis.