Whoops. I meant it is an HP ZX6000 workstation system (not ZX 9000).

A uname -a on the box shows that it is
HP-UX hpwk1 B.11.22 U ia64.

Thanks for the info on Ignite/UX - I'll look in to it.

A



On Apr 18, 11:38 am, Rick Jones <rick.jon...@hp.com> wrote:
> andrews.usenet.acco...@gmail.com wrote:
> > So I'm not a HP-UX admin by any stretch of the imagination, but have
> > inherited a lab where we have a couple of old HP ZX 9000 IA64
> > systems, one of which contains a HP-UX 11i installation. One of our
> > engineers needs it from time to time to check that a cross platform
> > shell script he works on runs correctly in HP-UX.
>
> A couple nits:
>
> *) the IA64 systems are "Integrity" systems not 9000's
>
> *) there are at least two common "11i" revs for Integrity systems -
> 11iv2 (aka 11.23) and 11iv3 (aka 11.31) so best to be specific.
>
> > Of course there is no backup, and the HP-UX install CDs have long
> > since vanished (actually I have HP-UX PA-Risc install CDs, but not
> > HP- UX IA64 install CDs - that would have made things too easy!)
> > I'm trying to figure out how I can make a backup of the known good
> > HP- UX install (which is on a single SCSI drive), to a spare
> > identical hard drive (and I mean identical, same size, geometry,
> > etc) from one of the other unused machines to avoid potential
> > disasters/drive failures etc occurring on my watch. The second
> > drive does not have HP- UX on it, and has essentially never been
> > used - so is almost a "fresh" drive.
>
> Ignite/UX and the make_mumble_recovery functionality is what you want.
> At least that can be used to make recovery images - not sure if they
> can do that to disc these days or not though.
>
> Ignite can be had via software.hp.com. Manuals should be somewhere on
> docs.hp.com I would think.
>
> > If this was a Linux x86 machine I'd insert the second drive, boot a
> > recovery CD, and simply dd or clonezilla the original drive to the
> > spare drive. I know some Linux distributions have IA64 boot disks,
> > and I'm thinking I might be able to accomplish the same here.
> > What I want to know is if there is a "best way" to do this in HP-UX,
> > any gotchas if I just use a linux IA64 bootable CD and do a DD, or any
> > other problems that might occur.
>
> The "best way" to backup a system install for recovery is via Ignite,
> but I believe folks have used dd in the past.
>
> Supported, known to work -> warm fuzzies all around
> Supported, not known to not work -> an HPite may be in trouble
> Supported, known to not work -> an HPite is in trouble
> Unsupported, known to work -> lucky today, unlucky tomorrow?
> Unsupported, not known to not work -> there but for the grace of Turing
> Unsupported, known to not work -> no, it was not deliberate ;-)
>
> hth,
>
> rick jones
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