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Manual Disaster Recovery of an HP-UX Client
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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
Backup Tape
To recover a system from a disaster using the bootable tape created by
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
Network
To recover an HP-UX client from a disaster via the network, follow the
instructions 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-address Ignite-UX server> install