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

Preparing To Move To HP-UX 11i v1
Preparing Your System for HP-UX 11i v1
Chapter 4 87
Using
make_tape_recovery
The Ignite-UX server’s make_tape_recovery command creates a bootable
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
will only include 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 a recovery tape.
To create the bootable recovery tape, enter:
/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -Av
where: v is for verbose mode and A specifies the entire root disk or
volume group. Also, more than one volume group can be specified with
the -x option.
If a tape drive other than the default (/dev/rmt/0m) will be used, 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 -d /dev/rmt/3mn
To recover a failed system disk or volume group after a recovery tape has
been made, simply load the recovery tape, boot the system, interrupting
the boot sequence (see Appendix A) 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 which 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, see the
make_tape_recovery (1M) manpage on an Ignite-UX server or Chapter 11
of the Ignite-UX Administration Guide. The guide is available on the
HP-UX 11i v1 Instant Information CD and at this web site:
http://docs.hp.com/
Using
make_net_recovery
The Ignite-UX server also has the make_net_recovery command to
create a 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 hostname, IP_address, networking
information, and so on. In the event of a root disk failure, you use the
Ignite-UX server to restore the system by installing the recovery archive.