Create HP-UX 11i v2 bootable media on USB DVD drive for two-step media recovery......

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Installation archive-based DVD examples........................................................................

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Put an Itanium-basedHP-UX 11i v3 golden archive on a DVD.......................................

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Put a PA-RISCHP-UX 11i v2 golden archive on a DVD..................................................

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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

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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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