No. Essentially, the utilities you are using, mksysb,
backup and savevg, do not create volids on the tape.
I have seen documentation where folks manually place a volid on the tape and the "skip" past this record and continue with their backup jobs. Unfortunately, mksysb
is very...
AIX 4.1.5 will only run on RS/6000s. There is
an older version of AIX which is nolonger available,
that used to run on IBM PS/2's, called PS2/AIX. This product was discontinued in the early 90's.
recently, IBM annouced a new Linux Affinity program that
indicated that AIX version 5L would...
I have evaluated a product from SyMark called Powerbroker
that performs this task. It also does it for the root user.
Try their website "www.symark.com" for further information. We did not end up implementing this product or any other.
We are booting rootvg from external SSA.
It works nicely. The only issue is that the SSA drives do not always keep the same "hdisk" number.
This is most evident when you are performing something like a migration upgrade/install. When booting from the CDROM, the names of the...
Install X-Windows and the CDE environment on the RS/6000,
then, from your PC; run an X-Windows Emulator such as
Hummingbird's Exceed.
This will give you a graphical environment, which will allow you to use scroll bars, resize windows, etc..
There is a "How To" on doing this on IBM's website,
The "How to" describes how to restore from a mksysb tape
or from a sysback tape.
If you make a backup of your ODM to another directory, you can accomplish the same thing...
Here are the commands and sequence:
# First get...
I would varyoff and export the volume group associated with
the array on the R30, You can then unplug it, then cable it up to the B80. Reboot the B80 or execute cfgmgr.
If the SSA is configured as a RAID-5 array, you should
see one hdisk associated with that array. If the SSA was not...
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