Restoring Your Operating System Using The Recovery Tape - HP 9000 Series Owner's Manual

Restoring Your Operating System Using the Recovery
Tape
If your operating system or the entire root disk becomes corrupted and not
usable, you can restore your system using your recovery system tape and your
archive backup tape(s). Also see \Booting the Workstation" in Appendix C for
information on using the Boot ROM to nd and boot from a recovery tape.
If your operating system is still usable but not functioning correctly, you can
load the leset
You can boot a memory-based version of
from the tape cartridge or DDS-format recovery tape which you have made.
From the recovery system, you can mount and unmount le systems, run
to check and repair le systems, copy les back onto your system disk, and
various other tasks.
Caution
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If your system disk (including
1. Verify that the recovery tape is
write access to your recovery tape when you boot it.
2. Load the recovery tape in your tape drive and be sure that the drive is
turned on.
3. Wait for the drive to become ready (the \busy" light remains o ).
4. Reset your computer by turning it o and then back on. Boot the system
and pause the boot process by pressing
color self-test and prompts for boot selection.
6-10 Backing Up, Restoring, and Updating Software
from an update tape to obtain diagnostic utilities,
TOOL
Do not run on a le system that is mounted and active.
fsck
This could introduce data corruption. Run
mode when checking the root le system. For le systems other
than the root le system, unmount the le system, run
and then remount the le system.
/SYSBCKUP
not write protected. HP-UX needs to have
recovery system )
(known as a
/hp-ux
fsck
) is unbootable, do the following:
after the computer performs its
4 5
ESC
fsck
in single-user
,
fsck
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