> Hi there, > > I have been working lately on some HP B 180 workstations, with UX 10.20. > We needed to make several batches of these with specific patch sets and > applications loaded, but different machine ids and IP addresses. Since the > proper load sequence took about 6 hours, we could not afford to do them > all serially, and didnt have the media resources to do them all in > parallel. We checked out the contents of the ODE (Offline Diag > Environment) CD, and found there a disk utility that can backup or restore > disk spindles to DDS in an image format. We built one machine, backed it > up (4GB = 1hr 20m), restores it onto another machine (similar time), and > ran set_parms to set machine name and IP data up as unique. This is also > very useful to backup disk images to capture the UX set up, LVM stuff > etc, to speed up recovery on loss of a hard drive. > The program only runs offline. It scans the hardware and lists all DDS and > HDD with index numbers, and asks Restore or Backup, which HDD, which DDS. > > Does anybody have any experience of this sort on 3000s, as this CD should > boot and run on the spectrum machines? I dont know how the 80 minutes for > 4gb compares to current STORE/RESTORE times any more. We did try the > compressed tape option once in an attempt to speed up the process, but the > restore failed withing 10 seconds with a "decompression failure"?? > > John Pitman >