Ignite-UX Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i (B3921-90079, October 2013)

Put two HP-UX 11i v2 golden archives, one Itanium-based and one PA-RISC, on a DVD....184
Create a recovery DVD...........................................................................................184
Create an HP-UX 11i v2 Itanium-based recovery DVD using an existing network recovery
image...................................................................................................................184
Error messages...........................................................................................................184
No DVD available..................................................................................................184
No DVD special files...............................................................................................185
Missing -c argument on HP-UX 11i v2 USB DVD drive..................................................185
Depot-Based DVDs...........................................................................................................185
HP-UX 11i v2 Depot-Based Installation DVDs...................................................................185
HP-UX 11i v3 Depot-Based Installation DVDs...................................................................187
15 Recovery..............................................................................................188
Overview............................................................................................................................188
System Recovery...................................................................................................................188
System Recovery Tools......................................................................................................189
Recovery Tool Comparison...........................................................................................189
Considerations When Using Veritas Volume Manager from Symantec................................190
Recovery Image Contents..................................................................................................190
Recovery Image Configuration Policies................................................................................191
Reconciling Client and Server Ignite-UX Versions for Recovery................................................191
Recovery Image Creation Process.......................................................................................192
Examining Recovery Image Contents.............................................................................194
Verifying Recovery Image Results...................................................................................196
Creating and Using Recovery Tapes...................................................................................198
Recovery Tape Creation Examples.................................................................................198
Tape Recovery for PA-RISC Systems................................................................................199
Tape Recovery for Itanium-Based Systems.......................................................................200
Tape Recovery for Integrity Blade Systems.......................................................................205
Creating and Using Network Recovery Images....................................................................206
Adding Clients for Recovery ........................................................................................207
Examples of Network Recovery Image Creation..............................................................209
Recovering using the Network for PA-RISC Clients............................................................209
Recovering using the Network for Itanium-Based Clients...................................................210
Retaining Recovery Images................................................................................................211
Making Recovery Configuration File Additions.....................................................................213
Using the recovery config.local file................................................................................213
Adding a depot..........................................................................................................213
Selecting File Systems During Recovery...............................................................................213
Tape Recovery With No Tape Boot Support — Two-Step Media Recovery...............................214
Notes on Cloning Systems.................................................................................................215
Cloning a System Using make_net_recovery...................................................................216
System Recovery Questions and Answers............................................................................217
16 Support and Other Resources.................................................................221
Contacting HP......................................................................................................................221
Before you contact HP......................................................................................................221
HP contact information.....................................................................................................221
Documentation feedback..................................................................................................221
Related information...............................................................................................................221
Documents......................................................................................................................221
Websites........................................................................................................................222
Typographic Conventions.......................................................................................................223
A Troubleshooting ....................................................................................224
Errors and Warnings.............................................................................................................224
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