Restore network ignite backup:-
Learn how to restore network ignite backup on HP-UX server. Learn how to restore some other server’s OS backup on diff server provided hardware model is same
Ignite backup is OS backup for HP-UX OS. Ignite-Ux is licensed tool developed by HP for their proprietary OS HP-UX. Ignite backup can be taken on local tape or over network on Ignite server. In this post we will be seeing how to restore network ignite backup on HP-UX.
Pre-requisite :
Login to Ignite server and confirm below points :
Ignite backup of server is available under /var/opt/ignite/clients/<MAC of machine> directory
Directory ownership is bin:bin
Directory permissions are 755
One spare IP with same subnet of Ignite server for installation
Restoration :
Power up your server on which network ignite backup needs to restore. Halt boot process at EFI shell. Enter EFI shell to build your boot profile. Boot profile is profile which has booting options like boot path, network path, setting up boot network parameters for current server etc.
On EFI prompt, you need to execute below command to build your boot profile :
dbprofile -dn ignite -sip 192.168.11.6 -cip 192.168.11.140 -m 255.255.255.0 -b "/opt/ignite/boot/nbp.efi"
Important Notes:-
-sip is Ignite server IP on which backup resides
-cip is machine ip to be used to boot machine with (spare IP I mentioned earlier)
-gip is gateway IP
-m is subnet mask
-b is boot path
-dn is profile name
Here we are building profile with name testprofile and related network parameters using which machine will boot and look for backup.
Now, boot your machine over LAN with this profile using below command from EFI shell:
EFI>lanboot select -dn ignite
This will boot machine with taking himself IP defined in cip, with gateway in gip and will search for boot path on Ignite server sip. Once its query reaches ignite server, it check the MAC address from which query is generated and then serves backup boot path from directory with that MAC address title. That's why we checked permission and ownership previously.
Once everything goes smoothly, you will be served with text based GUI installation menu on your putty terminal. You can go ahead with installation and restore network ignite backup.
