Disaster Recovery

Manual Disaster Recovery of an HP-UX Client

enough space to store the compressed archive.

4.Select the volume groups you want to include into the archive.

5.The archive creation process will now begin. Check the status and log file on the Ignite-UX server by right clicking the icon and selecting

Client Status.

NOTE

Ignite-UX allows you to create bootable archive tape out of the

 

compressed archive file. See the chapter Create a Bootable Archive Tape

 

via the Network in the Ignite-UX Administration Guide.

 

 

Recovery

Recovery From the To recover a system from a disaster using the bootable tape created by

Backup Tape make_tape_recovery follow the steps below:

1.Replace the faulty hardware.

2.Make sure that the tape device is locally connected to the crashed HP-UX client and insert the medium with the archive you want to restore.

3.Boot from the prepared recovery tape. To do so, type in SEARCH at the boot admin menu to get a list of all available boot devices. Determine which one is the tape drive and type in the boot command: boot <hardware path> or boot P<number>.

4.The recovery process starts automatically.

5.After the recovery has completed successfully, restore additional user and application data using the standard Data Protector restore procedure.

Recovery From the To recover an HP-UX client from a disaster via the network, follow the

Networkinstructions on how to perform recovery with a Golden Image. Make sure you have selected the desired archive for the installation.

•On the Client

1.Replace the faulty hardware.

2.Boot the HP-UX client from the Ignite-UX server: boot lan.<IP-addressIgnite-UX server> install

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