January 2007
Intermediate to advanced
760 pages
25h 14m
English
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Chapter 12. HP-UX Bare-Metal Recovery
This chapter explains procedures that a system administrator would use to recover an
HP-UX operating system in case of a complete
system failure—when there is nothing left but bare metal. Hewlett Packard Ignite-UX provides
a unique approach to system recovery by integrating bare-metal system recovery capabilities
with general deployment tool sets within a client/server framework. The Ignite-UX make_net_recovery and make_tape_recovery
tools may be used to create bootable system recovery archives that are intended to return
the installed OS to new or original hardware in a disaster. The recovery archives may be
stored across the network on disk or on local tape drives. Ignite-UX may be installed from
HP-UX application CDs or downloaded free from http://software.hp.com.
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This chapter was contributed by Eric Stahl and Ron Goodwyn. Eric has 25 years in IT including stints with Hewlett Packard, the Space Shuttle Launch Control Center, and flight-testing the first F15E and B2 aircraft. Ron received his B.S. in computer science from Tuskegee University and has written a few articles on Ignite-UX system recovery in the past.
System Recovery with Ignite-UX
The original Ignite-UX recovery tool was called
make_recovery. It provided system administrators with
an efficient means for creating bootable backup tapes of the root volume group (containing
the boot disk). For current releases of Ignite-UX, make_tape_recovery obsoletes make_recovery, offering tighter ...
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