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

Crash Processing and Recovery
Network and Tape Recovery
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Using make_tape_recovery Outside of a vPars Environment
The creation of make_tape_recovery tapes is supported on vPars-enabled servers. However with vPars
A.04.01, A.03.01, and A.03.02, recoveries using these tapes must be done outside of the vPars environment;
they cannot be used to recover a system from within a virtual partition. For example, the tape cannot be used
with the vparboot -I command on PA-RISC servers.
NOTE The exception to this is using a dual-media boot. For information on using a dual-media boot,
see “Using make_tape_recovery and Dual-media Boot” on page 325.
The following sections describe:
• archiving and recovering a virtual partition
• archiving and recovering a virtual partition using another virtual partition as the Ignite-UX server
Assumptions
In the following example, it is assumed that the version of vPars in the tape archive is the same as that
installed in the other virtual partitions.
If the virtual partition being recovered owns the system or hard partition's primary boot path, and if changes
have been made to the vPars configuration since make_tape_recovery was run, then the recovered vPars
database (/stand/vpdb) will be out of date.
If the recovered configuration is out of date, the recovery will require one of the following additional steps:
• Boot the vPars Monitor from an alternate boot disk with the current vPars database. When the recovered
virtual partition is booted, the database will be synchronized with the current configuration.
• Recover an up-to-date database file from a backup before booting the vPars Monitor.
• Boot the vPars Monitor and the recovered partition, and then update the configuration with vparmodify,
vparcreate, and vparremove.