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Operating Systems HP-UX HP-UX server cloning Post 302596431 by methyl on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 10:48:26 AM

02-07-2012

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Background: What are you trying to achieve and why are you attempting this job?
This garbled sentence does not make any sense to me:

Quote:

My requirement to create a clone server and replace SAN to local disk on new server.

Will there be two systems running at the end of the process or one system?
Are both physical computers identical? It would really help to know what hardware this is and how big your tape drive is?
Are any vg00 partitions not on the system disc? (If not, what is wrong with Ignite?).

I'm worried that you have pulled a mirrored disc from the original computer without any precautions. This will make the original system mirrors "stale".
There is no way that a loose mirrored disc pulled in this manner is suitable for booting on another computer - it too will be "stale".

What backup software do you use?

Addenda:
Annoysystem does not appear in Google Search. What is it?

If you get an error message, please post the actual error message:

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Have mirrored the VG, but when I connected that to another server it wont restarted got error as not find boot info ...

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LEARN ABOUT HPUX

vgsync

vgsync(1M)																vgsync(1M)

NAME

       vgsync - synchronize stale logical volume mirrors in LVM volume groups

SYNOPSIS

       vg_name ...

   Remarks
       This  command  requires	the  installation of the optional HP MirrorDisk/UX software, which is not included in the standard HP-UX operating
       system.

       If the volume group input arguments belong to a combination of volume groups version 1.0 and 2.0 or higher, the arguments may not  be  pro-
       cessed in the order they are listed on the command line.

DESCRIPTION

       The  command synchronizes the physical extents of each mirrored logical volume in the volume group specified by vg_name	....  Synchroniza-
       tion occurs only on the physical extents that are stale mirrors of the original logical extent.

       The synchronization process can be time consuming, depending on the hardware characteristics and the amount of data.  Unless disabled,  the
       mirrors within a volume group are synchronized automatically when the volume group is activated by the command.

   Arguments
       recognizes the following argument:

	      vg_name	     The path name of a volume group.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

   Environment Variables
       determines the language in which messages are displayed.

       If is not specified or is null, it defaults to "C" (see lang(5)).

       If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, all internationalization variables default to "C" (see environ(5)).

EXAMPLES

       Synchronize the mirrors on volume group

WARNINGS

       It is not advisable to interrupt a process.

SEE ALSO

       lvsync(1M), vgchange(1M), vgdisplay(1M).

						    Requires Optional HP MirrorDisk/UX Software 					vgsync(1M)