System Recovery to Local Tape Drive with make_tape_recovery

Ignite-UX is a product bundled with HP-UX 11i that provides a process to create a bootable system recovery tape. The tape contains a boot area and an operating system archive. Should your root disk fail or corruption of the root disk take place, you can recover using the bootable system recovery tape.

make_tape_recovery is the Ignite-UX tool that is used to create the bootable system recovery tape. You could boot and restore from the system recovery tape and then use your system backup to fully restore the system. If your root disk were to fail, in a non-mirrored environment, you would perform the following steps to recover from the failure:

  • Replace the defective root disk.
  • Boot from ...

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