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Operating Systems HP-UX HP-UX server cloning Post 302597127 by vbe on Thursday 9th of February 2012 09:10:51 AM

02-09-2012

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Are your disks identical?
If strictly identical, there is an option you should try: vgreduce or split the mirror to have only one disk in vg00 then do a dd...
It should boot...
dont forget to turn off the VG_AUTO_ACTIVATE for vg01... for you will need to import the correct definition of the VG (dont know how you will do that though for SAN is not the same...)
My 2 cents:
I would go and boot the system, that will complain (duplicate address) so try to boot single user modify all that is need, ( /etc/lvmtab, fstab etc...) give a new IP and get your network team to create a VLAN so you can use it even if you are the only node in that sublan...
Once OK, activate you mirroring...
Now add vg01 (pvcreate etc...) and create all lvm as on the original.
Either copy or restore (if you backup utility will do such tasks...).
All this should be done at init level2 to be safe with no fancy unwanted overhead.

this sort of manipulation were my daily routine one time, but long, long ago...
An L3000 had at configuration/order time an option at order: you could choose a tape drive OR a DVD internal... If you wanted both you had to choose which device was external.. I had both and believe the internal tape was the best choice...

P.S.
I did also use the mirror, but had some much issues I gave up... the best of all is by far the Ignite tape, since you can start almost a fresh "install" and configure the new box immediately by giving his new name , IP etc...
Ever considered Ignite via LAN?

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amverify

AMVERIFY(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       AMVERIFY(8)

NAME

       amverify - check an Amanda tape for errors

SYNOPSIS

       amverify config [ slot [ runtapes ] ]

DESCRIPTION

       Amverify  reads	an  Amanda  format  tape  and makes sure each backup image can be processed by amrestore and, if possible, the appropriate
       restore program (e.g. tar).

       Amverify runs amrestore on each file of the tape and pipes the output to a restore program (if available) with an option to create a  cata-
       logue of the backup.  The catalogue itself is discarded.  Only the success or failure of the operation itself is reported.

       If  the	backup image cannot be processed by the restore program, e.g. if it was written on a different operating system, the image is sent
       through dd to /dev/null.  This still determines if the tape is readable, but does not do any internal consistency check on the image.

       If config is set up to use a tape changer, the slot argument may be used to choose the first tape to process.  Otherwise, the current  slot
       is used.

       The runtapes configuration parameter determines how many tapes are processed unless it is specified on the command line.

       See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda.

AUTHOR

       Axel Zinser <fifi@icem.de>

SEE ALSO

       amrestore(8), amanda(8), amverifyrun(8)

																       AMVERIFY(8)