Put two HP-UX 11i v2 golden archives, one Itanium-based and one PA-RISC, on a DVD

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Create a recovery DVD...........................................................................................

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Create an HP-UX 11i v2 Itanium-based recovery DVD using an existing network recovery

image...................................................................................................................

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Error messages...........................................................................................................

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No DVD available..................................................................................................

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No DVD special files...............................................................................................

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Missing -c argument on HP-UX 11i v2 USB DVD drive..................................................

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Depot-Based DVDs...........................................................................................................

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HP-UX 11i v2 Depot-Based Installation DVDs...................................................................

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HP-UX 11i v3 Depot-Based Installation DVDs...................................................................

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15 Recovery..............................................................................................

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Overview............................................................................................................................

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System Recovery...................................................................................................................

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System Recovery Tools......................................................................................................

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Recovery Tool Comparison...........................................................................................

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Considerations When Using Veritas Volume Manager from Symantec................................

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Recovery Image Contents..................................................................................................

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Recovery Image Configuration Policies................................................................................

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Reconciling Client and Server Ignite-UX Versions for Recovery................................................

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Recovery Image Creation Process.......................................................................................

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Examining Recovery Image Contents.............................................................................

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Verifying Recovery Image Results...................................................................................

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Creating and Using Recovery Tapes...................................................................................

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Recovery Tape Creation Examples.................................................................................

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Tape Recovery for PA-RISC Systems................................................................................

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Tape Recovery for Itanium-Based Systems.......................................................................

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Tape Recovery for Integrity Blade Systems.......................................................................

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Creating and Using Network Recovery Images....................................................................

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Adding Clients for Recovery ........................................................................................

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Examples of Network Recovery Image Creation..............................................................

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Recovering using the Network for PA-RISC Clients............................................................

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Recovering using the Network for Itanium-Based Clients...................................................

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Retaining Recovery Images................................................................................................

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Making Recovery Configuration File Additions.....................................................................

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Using the recovery config.local file................................................................................

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Adding a depot..........................................................................................................

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Selecting File Systems During Recovery...............................................................................

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Tape Recovery With No Tape Boot Support — Two-Step Media Recovery...............................

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Notes on Cloning Systems.................................................................................................

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Cloning a System Using make_net_recovery...................................................................

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System Recovery Questions and Answers............................................................................

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16 Support and Other Resources.................................................................

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Contacting HP......................................................................................................................

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Before you contact HP......................................................................................................

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HP contact information.....................................................................................................

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Documentation feedback..................................................................................................

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Related information...............................................................................................................

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Documents......................................................................................................................

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Websites........................................................................................................................

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Typographic Conventions.......................................................................................................

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A Troubleshooting ....................................................................................

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Errors and Warnings.............................................................................................................

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