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Remote Backup
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The question is if you are talking mksysb or whether you are talking backup?
One requires a bootable tape the other is the system files...?
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Remote Backup:
Remember that a 3.2 system should not be used with a 4.1 tape driver and vice
versa. Some have attempted it and some have failed. If it works great.....
but there is no guarantee.
You can try:
tar -bl -cf - . | rsh YOURREMOTEHOST "dd ibs=512 obs=1024 of=/dev/rmt0"
Restore from a remote, could look like this:
cd for file that begin ./home/myname
rsh remote_hostname "dd if=/dev/rmt1 bs=1024" | restore -xqvf -
Which if you break this apart has a dd executing on remote_hostname
that read a tape on rmt1 and places the data on stdout which the rsh
pulls back to the local machine, a pipe to move data between commands,
then restore executing on the local machine reads data from stdin
and writes the output.
You could also look into nfs mount for your tape drive as well
You can mount a directory, on a machine that has a tape drive...
do your mksysb to file......and then copy to tape. However...remember it is not bootable....so you are looking at NIM ........unless you are looking at just restoring a few files.
Some have used NIM as well to serve various machines at various levels of AIX...
And if you see the thread on sysback there is a 45 day trial...It is a realitively inexpensive product by IBM that does remote backups easily and resotres pretty easy as well.
One requires a bootable tape the other is the system files...?
--------------------------------------------
Remote Backup:
Remember that a 3.2 system should not be used with a 4.1 tape driver and vice
versa. Some have attempted it and some have failed. If it works great.....
but there is no guarantee.
You can try:
tar -bl -cf - . | rsh YOURREMOTEHOST "dd ibs=512 obs=1024 of=/dev/rmt0"
Restore from a remote, could look like this:
cd for file that begin ./home/myname
rsh remote_hostname "dd if=/dev/rmt1 bs=1024" | restore -xqvf -
Which if you break this apart has a dd executing on remote_hostname
that read a tape on rmt1 and places the data on stdout which the rsh
pulls back to the local machine, a pipe to move data between commands,
then restore executing on the local machine reads data from stdin
and writes the output.
You could also look into nfs mount for your tape drive as well
You can mount a directory, on a machine that has a tape drive...
do your mksysb to file......and then copy to tape. However...remember it is not bootable....so you are looking at NIM ........unless you are looking at just restoring a few files.
Some have used NIM as well to serve various machines at various levels of AIX...
And if you see the thread on sysback there is a 45 day trial...It is a realitively inexpensive product by IBM that does remote backups easily and resotres pretty easy as well.
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