Quoting Andrew Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Excellent!
Somehow I missed that on the HP site before now. I know the AIX method, love it, but apparently, there is not a HP-UX equivalent to mirrorvg...except ignite. Fingers crossed, hpoing not to hose anything! Ian > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > long time since I've read or posted...been away from home most of the last > > > month working a office rollout. > > > > The customer who is driving the requirements for this office, has some > pretty > > finicky and esoteric requirements to run the cadd software that they use. > > > > We have a working configuration we need to roll out on several other > machines > > and we're looking for a way to clone/duplicate this machine instead of the > long > > and tedious job of configuring 10+ more machines manually. > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how this can be done reliably? > > > > The hardware specs for anyone interested are: > > > > - HP C3600 Workstations > > - HP A1658-60031 HDisk (SCSI Ultra 160 LVD) > > > > The thing I am stumped by is how to get both disks running in the same > machine > > and bit-for-bit copy them. From what I can tell, in order to have them > both in > > the same system, they need to be initialized as different volumes (ie > /dev/vg00 > > and /dev/vg01) and I cannot find out if the /dev/vg01 can be used at the > main > > booting disk in a system after cloing, or if it *has to be* /dev/vg00. I'm > an > > IBM kinda guy, so anyone out there with any hints, I'd really appreciate > them. > > > > > > Thanks in advance...I hope. > > > > > > > > I don't know what the equivalent HP-UX command is, but I use: > "mirrorvg -m VGname PVname" in AIX which is what you're trying to do. > This allows me to recreate a disk that's bootable and is an *exact* copy > of the original. Also check out Ignite at: > > http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xe49284534efbd5118ff40090279cd0f 9,00.html > > -- > Andrew Mathews > ------------------------------------------------------------ > 7:50pm up 4 days, 23:00, 5 users, load average: 1.28, 1.26, 1.13 > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - > http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above > URL. > -- Linux SxS Mirror [http://sxs.homeip.net] _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
