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Operating Systems HP-UX HP-UX server cloning Post 302597149 by Shirishlnx on Thursday 9th of February 2012 10:47:06 AM

02-09-2012

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@Methyl
- Yes both server have same model
- On server there's 4 hdd slots of which 2 used (for OS data 1 mirrored disk )
- Have 2 extra hdd, CAN we take backup on hdd on this by inserting on free slots .
- Also am not sure that Ignite backup will restore my other application configuration files ..

-- Am preferring to go with Mirroring but .. Am sticking with proper mirroring and removing mirrored 2nd disk safely from server without any damage to LVM and that mirrored disk to be work fine on new server .. Smilie

@ VBE, Thnaks sir for your valuable guide..
Yes server have 2 disk on mirrored state, but I can't break already mirrored disk as this is on live and my mgmt doesn't allow me to do so .. I can do is I can take a downtime of secondary passive cluster and do mirroring and take out my disk .
Earlier have did such job for Linux (suse and CentOS) cases with offline dd of hdd and had worked fine .. But here my PM dosent allow me to do so as HP doesn't recommend fro dd copy of whole OS ... Smilie

and my Manager is strict with that .. and have to complete this in some deadline time ...

Here what I want ..
- Attached a 3rd hdd on secondary cluster server ... Mirror it make bootable
- Remove the HDD and connect to new server (Change IP/hostname/disableclustering make script to start all application in order cluster is -- have already made that script)
- And replace SAN data on HDD on new server ... So we have Omni backup configured so am planning to restore that data to new server same size of LV (will create a new vg on new disk and create number of LV as on original server have make entry in fstab)

Sir please advice where am missing with mirroring as have tried but that disk failed to boot .. (Steps taken were mentioned in my first thread)

--Shirish Shukla

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vxconfigbackup

vxconfigbackup(1M)														vxconfigbackup(1M)

NAME

       vxconfigbackup - back up disk group configuration

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/vx/bin/vxconfigbackup [-l directory] [[dgname ...] | [dgid ...]]

DESCRIPTION

       The  vxconfigbackup  utility  can  be  used to backup up the configuration information for one or more disk groups.  The disk groups may be
       specified either by name or by ID.  If no disk groups are specified, all disk group configurations are backed up.

OPTIONS

       -l directory
		 Specifies a directory other than the default where the backup configuration files are to be written.

		 Note: The default backup directory is /etc/vx/cbr/bk.

EXAMPLES

       Back up the configuration of the mydg disk group to the directory /dgbackup/mydg:

		 vxconfigbackup -l /dgbackup/mydg mydg

FILES

       /etc/vx/cbr/bk/dgname.dgid/dgid.dginfo
		 Default location of backup file for disk group information.

       /etc/vx/cbr/bk/dgname.dgid/dgid.diskinfo
		 Default location of backup file for disk attributes.

       /etc/vx/cbr/bk/dgname.dgid/dgid.binconfig
		 Default location of backup file for binary configuration copy.

       /etc/vx/cbr/bk/dgname.dgid/dgid.cfgrec
		 Default location of backup file for configuration records in vxprint -m format.

NOTES

       The vxconfigbackupd daemon automatically backs up a disk group's new configuration to the default backup directory whenever the	configura-
       tion is changed.  The vxconfigbackup command is provided to back up the configuration manually at any other desired time.

       The  disk  group  configuration	backup and restore utilities do not save any data in the public region. This includes file system or other
       application data that is configured within VxVM objects.

SEE ALSO

       vxconfigbackupd(1M), vxconfigrestore(1M)

VxVM 5.0.31.1							    24 Mar 2008 						vxconfigbackup(1M)