HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator's Guide (includes A.05.02)

Crash Processing and Recovery
Network and Tape Recovery
Chapter 10
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Network and Tape Recovery
This section covers different methods of network and tape recovery on vPars systems. The following table lists
the supported recovery methods on each vPars release.
For information on performing a recovery using:
• make_net_recovery within a vPars-environment, see “Using make_net_recovery within a vPars
Environment” on page 319
• make_tape_recovery outside of a vPars-environment, see “Using make_tape_recovery Outside of a vPars
Environment” on page 321
• make_tape_recovery within a vPars-environment in conjunction with a disk-based Ignite-UX boot
helper, see “Using make_tape_recovery and Dual-media Boot” on page 325
• make_tape_recovery within a vPars-environment, see “Using make_tape_recovery within a
vPars-environment on PA-RISC Servers (vPars A.03.03, A.04.03, A.05.01)” on page 327
• golden images for recovery, see the whitepaper Using Golden Images with Virtual Partitions
• peripheral boot devices, see the whitepaper Booting, Installing, Recovery, and Sharing in a vPars
Environment from DVD/CDROM/TAPE/Network
• Ignite-UX, including make_net_recovery and make_tape_recovery, see the manual Ignite-UX
Administration Guide and the manpages make_tape_recovery (1m) and make_tape_recovery (1m).
The whitepapers listed above are available at the HP Documentation web site:
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/11i/index.html#Virtual%20Partitions
NOTE Using vparboot -I with Ignite-UX on PA-RISC systems
When using Ignite-UX version C.06.xx or later, note that the bootable kernel path has changed
from /opt/ignite/boot/WINSTALL in Ignite-UX B.05.xx and earlier
to /opt/ignite/boot/Rel_B.11.NN/WINSTALL in Ignite-UX C.06.xx and later
Thus, when using Ignite-UX C.06.xx or later, you must specify the absolute path for the
bootable kernel for the vparboot -I command line.
Table 10-1 Supported Recovery methods by vPars Release
Recovery Method A.03.xx A.04.xx A.05.xx
Network recovery within a
vPars environment
yes yes yes
Tape recovery within a vPars
environment
A.03.01/A.03.02: no
A.03.03 and later: yes
A.04.01/A.04.02: no
A.04.03 and later: yes
(PA-RISC only)
yes (PA-RISC only)
Tape recovery within a vPars
environment, using a
disk-based install kernel
(dual-media boot)
yes yes yes
Tape recovery outside of a
vPars environment
yes yes yes