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
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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
Using make_tape_recovery
The Ignite-UX server’s make_tape_recovery command creates a
bootable operating system recovery tape for an LVM or whole disk file
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.
If you intend to use a tape drive other than the default (/dev/rmt/0m),
modify the command to point to the device you want to use, for example,
a tape drive at /dev/rmt/3mn:
/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -Av -a /dev/rmt/3mn
To recover a failed system disk or volume group after an operating
system recovery tape has been made, simply load the recovery tape, boot
the system and interrupt the boot sequence to redirect to the tape drive.
Allow the install process to complete. Do not intervene. The system will
reboot and, because map files for all associated volume groups have been
saved on the tape, any other existing volume groups are imported and
mounted automatically. Data that is not in the root volume group must
be backed up and recovered using normal backup utilities.
For more information on using make_tape_recovery, refer to the
make_tape_recovery (1M) manpage on an Ignite-UX server 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