HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide, February 2007 (Initial Release)

Preparing to Cold-Install or Update to HP-UX 11i v3
Backing Up Your System
Chapter 4 73
Using make_net_recovery
The Ignite-UX product has the make_net_recovery command to create
an operating system recovery image on another system on the network.
The image created by make_net_recovery is specific to the system it
was created for and its identity includes host name, IP address,
networking information, and so on. In the event of root disk failure, you
use the Ignite-UX server to restore the system by installing the
operating system recovery image.
The contents of the operating system recovery image always includes all
files and directories that are essential to bringing up a functional
system. This essential list is predefined by make_net_recovery.
You can run make_net_recovery in its interactive mode to review the
directories and files that make up the essential list, and to add or remove
other data from the image on a disk/volume group, file, or directory basis.
For more information on using make_net_recovery, refer to the
make_net_recovery (1M) manpage or the Ignite-UX Administration
Guide. The guide is available at the HP Technical Documentation Web
site:
http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv3.html
You can also locate the Ignite-UX Administration Guide at the Ignite-UX
Information Library:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/IUX/infolib.html
Using make_tape_recovery
The Ignite-UX product’s make_tape_recovery command creates a
bootable operating system recovery tape for a system while it is up and
running. When a system has a logical volume layout, the recovery tape
only includes data from the root volume group, plus data from any
non-root volume group containing the /usr directory.
You can run make_tape_recovery locally on the system from which you
are trying to make an operating system recovery tape. To create the
bootable recovery tape, enter:
/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -Av
where A specifies the entire root disk or volume group and v is for
verbose mode. Also, you can specify more than one volume group with
the -x option.