Ignite-UX Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i (B3921-90080, November 2013)

Put two HP-UX 11i v2 golden archives, one Itanium-based and one PA-RISC, on a DVD....185
Create a recovery DVD...........................................................................................185
Create an HP-UX 11i v2 Itanium-based recovery DVD using an existing network recovery
image...................................................................................................................185
Error messages...........................................................................................................185
No DVD available..................................................................................................185
No DVD special files...............................................................................................186
Missing -c argument on HP-UX 11i v2 USB DVD drive..................................................186
Depot-Based DVDs...........................................................................................................186
HP-UX 11i v2 Depot-Based Installation DVDs...................................................................186
HP-UX 11i v3 Depot-Based Installation DVDs...................................................................188
15 Recovery..............................................................................................189
Overview............................................................................................................................189
System Recovery...................................................................................................................189
System Recovery Tools......................................................................................................190
Recovery Tool Comparison...........................................................................................190
Considerations When Using Veritas Volume Manager from Symantec................................191
Recovery Image Contents..................................................................................................191
Recovery Image Configuration Policies................................................................................192
Reconciling Client and Server Ignite-UX Versions for Recovery................................................192
Recovery Image Creation Process.......................................................................................193
Examining Recovery Image Contents.............................................................................195
Verifying Recovery Image Results...................................................................................197
Creating and Using Recovery Tapes...................................................................................199
Recovery Tape Creation Examples.................................................................................199
Tape Recovery for PA-RISC Systems................................................................................200
Tape Recovery for Itanium-Based Systems.......................................................................201
Tape Recovery for Integrity Blade Systems.......................................................................206
Creating and Using Network Recovery Images....................................................................207
Adding Clients for Recovery ........................................................................................208
Examples of Network Recovery Image Creation..............................................................210
Recovering using the Network for PA-RISC Clients............................................................210
Recovering using the Network for Itanium-Based Clients...................................................211
Retaining Recovery Images................................................................................................212
Making Recovery Configuration File Additions.....................................................................214
Using the recovery config.local file................................................................................214
Adding a depot..........................................................................................................214
Selecting File Systems During Recovery...............................................................................214
Tape Recovery With No Tape Boot Support — Two-Step Media Recovery...............................215
Notes on Cloning Systems.................................................................................................216
Cloning a System Using make_net_recovery...................................................................217
System Recovery Questions and Answers............................................................................218
16 Support and Other Resources.................................................................222
Contacting HP......................................................................................................................222
Before you contact HP......................................................................................................222
HP contact information.....................................................................................................222
Documentation feedback..................................................................................................222
Related information...............................................................................................................222
Documents......................................................................................................................222
Websites........................................................................................................................223
Typographic Conventions.......................................................................................................224
A Troubleshooting ....................................................................................225
Errors and Warnings.............................................................................................................225
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