Remote backup possible? 1

[Madz]

I want to make a remote backup.

The problem is that I have different boxes. SCO and AIX.
Is it possible to make a bootable backup(mksysb) of the AIX system with this config?

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Will this script make the tape bootable? if the backup is done with mksysb?
LOCAL=/dev/tape_dev
REMOTE=/dev/tape_dev
dd if=$LOCAL ibs=64k obs=512 | rsh remote_host dd ibs=512 obs=64k of=$REMOTE


thanks in advance!
/mats.

 

[MikeLacey]

Yes, I think it will. It should be fairly easy to test in any case -- on the source machine, go partway through the boot sequence from a tape you've created like this. Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
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