forgive me if this seems a bit trivial to you but I am fairly new to HP-ux having worked with AIX for the past 15 years. We have inherited a couple of HP-ux servers without any tape drives and running Hp-ux v11. I am familiar with creating mksysbs on our AIX Nim server for recovery and wondered if something similar can be done those 2 Hp-ux servers. We are backing database up over san using Netbackup but are worried we won't be able to recover the system in the worst case scenario. I have heard there is something called 'Ignite' but again any advice you can give would be appreciated.
Can I only create bootable backups from a network share using Ignite?
I have an nfs mount setup onto our nim and wondered whether we can make use of it this way.
zra1:/home/vbe $ swlist -l product | grep gnite
Ignite-UX B.4.4.30 HP-UX System Installation Services
zra1:/home/vbe $ uname -r
B.11.00
zra1:/home/vbe $ ll /opt/ignite/bin/
total 3114
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 15434 Jul 24 2003 add_new_client
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 36864 Jul 24 2003 add_release
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 46838 Jul 24 2003 bootsys
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 106496 Jul 24 2003 check_recovery
-r-xr--r-- 1 bin bin 11232 Jul 24 2003 copy_boot_tape
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 16924 Jul 24 2003 fix_patches
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 180224 Jul 24 2003 ignite
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 36864 Jul 24 2003 instl_adm
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 32768 Jul 24 2003 instl_dbg
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 311296 Jul 24 2003 itool
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 24576 Jul 24 2003 make_arch_config
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 16384 Jul 24 2003 make_boot_tape
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 18753 Jul 24 2003 make_bundles
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 102400 Jul 24 2003 make_config
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 106496 Jul 24 2003 make_depots
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 21648 Jul 24 2003 make_medialif
-r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 126976 Jul 24 2003 make_net_recovery
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 106496 Jul 24 2003 make_recovery
-r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 126976 Jul 24 2003 make_tape_recovery
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 28672 Jul 24 2003 manage_index
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 40960 Jul 24 2003 print_manifest
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 17967 Jul 24 2003 remove_release
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 56376 Jul 24 2003 save_config
zra1:/home/vbe $
If installed, look at the man pages of make_net_recovery (1M)
Oh shit. HP-UX 11.00 is very old and unsupported.
At that release the Insight make_recovery command only works to a tape deck.
This hardware must be 10-years old or more?
As you stand you will be faced with a cold build in the event of a disaster. Make sure that you have the all original release kits (and any subsequent patches) and that you have 100% accurate documentation of your filesystem layout and a reliable backup of every file (not just the database).
The system documentation script sysinfo.sh should still be available from HP Support. This script finds out enough about your HP-UX 11 system for an expert to rebuild it.
Just read vbe's post. I never got make_net_recovery to work on HP-UX 11.00 . It worked okay on 11.11 .
Comparing the dates in vbe's listing, my file timestamps are even older (2001) .. and I think that those timestamps come from fix kits.
Thanks for coming back to me. i know the servers are pretty ancient but we inherited them from another provider and at this time unable to upgrade due to the application that is running on them. I will look at your suggestions and it given me a few leads. At least I know I will have to get Ignite in order to do this so I'll check I have all original media.
Is there a place I can get a copy of Ignite from for this version of HP-ux? We have a dozen of these servers with Ignite being on most but not all of them and wondered where I can get a copy for the right version of my o/s.
Are all the boxes HP-UX 11.00?
As I said, I have a depot file for you if you have somewhere I can upload it for you...
I you have a dozen of identical boxes (or almost) try to put up two Ignite server to backup the lot and so have one server being able to restore the other in case of HW failure...
By default HP installed the minimum in /opt/ignite/bin in order to have print_manifest... at 11.00 (and so you had no make_recovery...) therefore the first thing I did on machine delivery was to install the complete Ignite-UX...( after first boot and default install...) dont remember for 11.11...
The directory listing posted by @vbe earlier shows that this package is not large.
The Ignite package should be on your release kit, but do apply the fix CDs (at least up to 2001) because I have a recollection that the base release was faulty. This was a long time ago and others may have better recollection.