HP-UX Secure Resource Partitions (SRP) A.02.01 Administrator's Guide

15 Exporting and Importing SRPs

You can export and import an SRP across systems by using the srp –export and srp -import

commands. These commands allow you to accomplish the following:

• Create a clone of an SRP on a secondary system for high availability or load balancing

purposes.

• Migrate an SRP across systems: export and import an SRP, then delete the original SRP.

• Create a copy of an SRP for archival purposes. Similarly, an SRP can be taken offline by

exporting and deleting the original SRP.

This chapter discusses the following:

• 15.1 Using the srp –export Command

• 15.2 Using the srp -import Command

• 15.3 Best practices for Exporting and Importing an SRP

15.1 Using the srp –export Command

The srp -export command exports the configuration data and optionally, specified directories, for

the specified SRP compartment. To export the SRP, the srp -export command copies the

SRP’sdata and stores it in the specified exchange file. The exchange file is used by the srp -

import command. You can only export an SRP that is in a stopped state.

The srp -export command has the following syntax:

srp –export [<compartment_name>] [–xfile <exchange_file>]

[-b[atch]] [variable=<value>...]

The options are as follows:

compartment_name

Specifies the name of an existing SRP compartment.

exchange_file

Specifies the exchange file name. The file is created if it does not already

exist.

The default is

srp.exchange

batch

Run srp-export in batch mode. The command will not prompt for

arguments or template variable values.

variable=value

The most commonly used variables for the export

operation are as follows:

• ok_export_dirs Yes or no value indicating whether the

directories identified by the variable $export_copy_dirs should

be exported to the exchange file.

• export_copy_dirs The comma separated list of directory

names to be copied to the exchange file if the variable

$ok_export_dirs has the value yes

You can use the following notation to assign a value to a variable:

name=value, name='value', or name="value"