Backing up an AIX Box

[sirrom]

I need to bakup an AIX box.
I need something like Solaris USF Dump which I use on my SUN boxes.
Do any of you wonderfull people know the best solution to this.
Also The AIX box has not been backed up for the last three months. Heeeeeeeeeeeeeelp!!!!!!!

 

[bjverzal]

AIX has the utilities called "mksysb" and "savevg". "mksysb" creates a bootable tape that will restore rootvg, and "savevg" will backup all of the other vg's.

BTW - there is an AIX forum here as well.

Thanks- Bill.

 

[lfoata]

You could also use tar which is available on all platforms. You could use mksysb for a full bootable backup once a week and tar the rest of the time for your important file systems.
The point to this is if your AIX server crashes, you will be able to restore the important data on a different unix platform (solaris, hp-ux, linux, etc)

 

[Guest_imported]

sirrom,

try:

1. mksysb - for you to have a bootable tape once you experience system crash, though it'll just save the "rootvg".

smit => system storage mgt => system backup mgr => backup the system => backup this sytem to Tape/File

= provide device by pressing F4 or supply a filename
= you can leave other default as is

2. tar command for other important directory and files not covered in rootvg,

tar cvf /dev/rmt# <filename/directory>

= where # correspond to tape device number

just a couple of possible solution for you to start with.

goodluck!



2. tar

 

[sirrom]

many thanx's