IGNITE BACKUP

INTRODUCTION TO HP IGNITE-UX

HP-UX have a software to backup the OS called “Ignite”. It bundled with OS installed. The easy way to make a OS backup is using tape data cartridge. Just plug the tape and run command “make_tape_recovery -AI”. To restore OS using recovery tape

Ignite-UX is an HP-UX 10.x, 11.0, and 11i product, including 11i v1.6 which supports Itanium Processor Family (IPF) systems, that facilitates installing and configuring HP-UX systems. Ignite-UX releases are available to install the HP-UX 10.01, 10.10, 10.20, 11.0 and 11i releases on client systems.

You will need the following to install an Ignite-UX server

• Computer - A series 700/800/Itanium Based Processor System running HP-UX 10.0 10.10 10.20 11.0 11i.
• Memory - Ignite -UX requires 64MB Min. on each server and client.
• Source Device - Make sure that your system has an appropriate source Device (ULT Drive) has physically attached to server. And ensure that drive heads are clean
• Ensure that a active SCSI port must be there to attach tape ULT drive
• An additional X11 display server. So that displkay can be redirected to another X-windows system by setting the DISPLAY environment variable. For example, in the Korn Sehll or Posix Shell use the following command
• export DISPLAY=:0.0
• Client and Server must be on the same subnet if you plan to do the initial boot of the client over the network.
• Ignite UX Bundle

Identifying the source Bundle / Depot for Ignite UX Software

you can determine the source Bundle/Depot used to install Ignite-UX by using the follwing commands:

# swlist | grep -i ignite
# swlist -a install source -l bundle

Verify Hardware path

Identify the device which is use for IGNITE backup. Use proper Device to take IGNITE backup

# ioscan -funC tape

Creating a Ignite-UX recovery Tape:

Using make_tape_recovery: The Ignite-UX server's make_tape_recovery command creates a bootable recovery tape for an LVM or whole disk file system while it is up and running. When a system has a logical volume layout, the recovery tape will only include data from the root volume group, plus data from any non-root volume group containing the /usr directory. You can run make_tape_recovery either on the Ignite-UX server or locally on the system from which you are trying to make a recovery tape.
Note: This is not recommended because Ignite-UX is not an Backup Tool. Backup other VGs with other backup utilities such as fbackup, tar, etc.

Creating a make_tape_recovery tape - Command Line Examples

Backing up only essential core OS files using the default device file /dev/rmt/0mn

# /opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery

Note: make_tape_recovery will check if there are configuration files from previously saved archives. If no configuration files exist that have different settings, only a core OS (essential files) will be backed up. /opt/ignite/recovery/mnr_essentials lists the files and directories that are considered essential.

To create the bootable recovery tape, enter:

Backing up the complete root VG using the default device file /dev/rmt/0mn

# /opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -Av -C -d /dev/rmt/0m

Options are explained below

-A: Based on the files that are specified for inclusion, this option identifies the disk(s) and/or VG(s) that contain these files and includes all files from the disk(s)/VG(s) in the archive. If no further files are specified for inclusion, the default essentials file list /opt/ignite/recovery/mnr_essentials is used for specifying the included files.

-v: Verbose mode, error and process logs will be displayed.

Backing up the complete root VG using a non-default device file

# /opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -Av –a /dev/rmt/c6t0d1BESTn


Verifying the make_tape_recovery Tape Looking up the log files

If make_tape_recovery was run locally, look up the log files at
/var/opt/ignite/recovery/.