Not many choices...
1)Get a Bigger tape drive
2) Do them manually if you do not have a multiple tape exchanger
3) move non root stuff to its own volume group and use the savevg to
do your backups of just your data....doing a real mksysb monthly...manually
so you can use two tapes.
4) Use the /etc/ exclude.rootvg and exclude some directories that are not
100% critical............
Excludes files listed in the /etc/exclude.rootvg file from being backed up.
The rules for exclusion follow the pattern matching rules of the grep command.
Note: If you want to exclude certain files from the backup, create the
/etc/exclude.rootvg file, with an ASCII editor, and enter the patterns of
file names that you do not want included in your system backup image.
The patterns in this file are input to the pattern matching conventions
of the grep command to determine which files will be excluded from the
backup. If you want to exclude files listed in the /etc/exclude.rootvg file,
select the Exclude Files field and press the Tab key once to change the
default value to yes.
To generate a system backup with a new /image.data file, but exclude
the files in directory /home/user1/tmp, create the file /etc/exclude.rootvg
containing the line /home/user1/tmp/, and
enter:
mksysb -i -e /dev/rmt1
This command will backup the /home/user1/tmp directory but not the files it
contains.
