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# 1  
Old 05-16-2012
Advice on HP-UX system backups
Hello,

forgive me if this seems a bit trivial to you but I am fairly new to HP-ux having worked with AIX for the past 15 years. We have inherited a couple of HP-ux servers without any tape drives and running Hp-ux v11. I am familiar with creating mksysbs on our AIX Nim server for recovery and wondered if something similar can be done those 2 Hp-ux servers. We are backing database up over san using Netbackup but are worried we won't be able to recover the system in the worst case scenario. I have heard there is something called 'Ignite' but again any advice you can give would be appreciated.

Can I only create bootable backups from a network share using Ignite?

I have an nfs mount setup onto our nim and wondered whether we can make use of it this way.

Thanks,
Neil.
# 2  
Old 05-16-2012
Please post the exact version of HP-UX. HP-UX 11 has been out for 15 years and has evolved.
Code:
uname -r

# 3  
Old 05-16-2012
The exact version is:

Code:
uskux13:/mnt # uname -r
B.11.00

Do you need to know any other details?

Thanks,
Neil.
Last edited by methyl; 05-16-2012 at 10:26 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 4  
Old 05-16-2012
You will have to use Ignite-UX:
Code:
zra1:/home/vbe $ swlist -l product | grep gnite
  Ignite-UX             B.4.4.30       HP-UX System Installation Services 
zra1:/home/vbe $ uname -r
B.11.00
zra1:/home/vbe $ ll /opt/ignite/bin/
total 3114
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin          15434 Jul 24  2003 add_new_client
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin          36864 Jul 24  2003 add_release
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin          46838 Jul 24  2003 bootsys
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin         106496 Jul 24  2003 check_recovery
-r-xr--r--   1 bin        bin          11232 Jul 24  2003 copy_boot_tape
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin          16924 Jul 24  2003 fix_patches
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin         180224 Jul 24  2003 ignite
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin          36864 Jul 24  2003 instl_adm
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin          32768 Jul 24  2003 instl_dbg
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin         311296 Jul 24  2003 itool
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin          24576 Jul 24  2003 make_arch_config
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin          16384 Jul 24  2003 make_boot_tape
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin          18753 Jul 24  2003 make_bundles
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin         102400 Jul 24  2003 make_config
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin         106496 Jul 24  2003 make_depots
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin          21648 Jul 24  2003 make_medialif
-r-xr-xr-x   2 bin        bin         126976 Jul 24  2003 make_net_recovery
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin         106496 Jul 24  2003 make_recovery
-r-xr-xr-x   2 bin        bin         126976 Jul 24  2003 make_tape_recovery
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin          28672 Jul 24  2003 manage_index
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin          40960 Jul 24  2003 print_manifest
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin          17967 Jul 24  2003 remove_release
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin          56376 Jul 24  2003 save_config
zra1:/home/vbe $

If installed, look at the man pages of make_net_recovery (1M)
# 5  
Old 05-16-2012
Oh shit. HP-UX 11.00 is very old and unsupported.
At that release the Insight make_recovery command only works to a tape deck.
This hardware must be 10-years old or more?

As you stand you will be faced with a cold build in the event of a disaster. Make sure that you have the all original release kits (and any subsequent patches) and that you have 100% accurate documentation of your filesystem layout and a reliable backup of every file (not just the database).

The system documentation script sysinfo.sh should still be available from HP Support. This script finds out enough about your HP-UX 11 system for an expert to rebuild it.


Just read vbe's post. I never got make_net_recovery to work on HP-UX 11.00 . It worked okay on 11.11 .
Comparing the dates in vbe's listing, my file timestamps are even older (2001) .. and I think that those timestamps come from fix kits.
Last edited by methyl; 05-16-2012 at 10:19 AM..
# 6  
Old 05-16-2012
Hello,

Thanks for coming back to me. i know the servers are pretty ancient but we inherited them from another provider and at this time unable to upgrade due to the application that is running on them. I will look at your suggestions and it given me a few leads. At least I know I will have to get Ignite in order to do this so I'll check I have all original media.

Thanks again,
Neil.
# 7  
Old 05-16-2012
What is the ouput of the command model?
I have a depot file of Ignite for 11.00 (just a question of how to upload somewhere...)
Code:
-rwxrwxrwx   1 vbe        bin        56637440 Feb  3  2004 Ignite-UX-11-00_B.4.4.30_HP-UX_B.11.00_32+64.depot
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