> 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
>