Administrator's Guide

Create HP-UX 11i v2 bootable media on USB DVD drive for two-step media recovery......186
Installation archive-based DVD examples........................................................................186
Put an Itanium-based HP-UX 11i v3 golden archive on a DVD.......................................186
Put a PA-RISC HP-UX 11i v2 golden archive on a DVD..................................................187
Put two HP-UX 11i v2 golden archives, one Itanium-based and one PA-RISC, on a DVD....187
Create a recovery DVD...........................................................................................187
Create an HP-UX 11i v2 Itanium-based recovery DVD using an existing network recovery
image...................................................................................................................187
Error messages...........................................................................................................187
No DVD available..................................................................................................187
No DVD special files...............................................................................................188
Missing -c argument on HP-UX 11i v2 USB DVD drive..................................................188
Depot-based DVDs...........................................................................................................188
HP-UX 11i v2 Depot-based installation DVDs...................................................................188
HP-UX 11i v3 Depot-based installation DVDs...................................................................190
15 Recovery..............................................................................................191
Overview............................................................................................................................191
System recovery....................................................................................................................191
System recovery tools.......................................................................................................192
Recovery tool comparison............................................................................................192
Considerations when using Veritas Volume Manager from Symantec..................................193
Recovery image contents..................................................................................................193
Recovery image configuration policies................................................................................194
Reconciling client and server Ignite-UX versions for recovery..................................................194
Recovery image creation process.......................................................................................195
Examining recovery image contents...............................................................................197
Verifying recovery image results....................................................................................199
Creating and using recovery tapes.....................................................................................201
Recovery tape creation examples..................................................................................201
Tape recovery for PA-RISC systems.................................................................................202
Tape recovery for Itanium-based systems........................................................................203
Tape recovery for Integrity Blade systems........................................................................208
Creating and using network recovery images......................................................................209
Adding clients for recovery ..........................................................................................210
Examples of network recovery image creation.................................................................212
Recovering using the network for PA-RISC clients..............................................................212
Recovering using the network for Itanium-based clients.....................................................213
Retaining recovery images................................................................................................214
Making recovery configuration file additions.......................................................................216
Using the recovery config.local file................................................................................216
Adding a depot..........................................................................................................216
Selecting file systems during recovery.................................................................................217
Tape recovery with no tape boot support — two-step media recovery.....................................217
Notes on cloning systems..................................................................................................219
Cloning a system using make_net_recovery....................................................................220
System recovery questions and answers..............................................................................221
16 Support and other resources...................................................................224
Contacting HP......................................................................................................................224
Before you contact HP......................................................................................................224
HP contact information.....................................................................................................224
Documentation feedback..................................................................................................224
Related information...............................................................................................................224
Documents......................................................................................................................224
Websites........................................................................................................................225
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