savevg and restore 1

[KenCunningham]

Hi folks, I'm backing up my datavg every night using savevg (the exact command being savevg -f /dev/rmt0.1 datavg). Running a restore -Tvqf /dev/rmt0.1 gives me initial output of:

New volume on /dev/rmt0.1:
Cluster size is 51200 bytes (100 blocks).
The volume number is 1.
The backup date is: Fri 13 Feb 00:03:57 2004
Files are backed up by name.
The user is root.
126 ./tmp/vgdata/vgdata.files438390
126 ./tmp/vgdata/vgdata.files
3457 ./tmp/vgdata/datavg/filesystems
10 ./tmp/vgdata/datavg/tapeblksz
10651 ./tmp/vgdata/datavg/datavg.data
1078 ./tmp/vgdata/datavg/backup.data
0 ./dpp/live02
5242888192 ./dpp/live02/RBLIVEbenindx01.dbf

etc. Being more used to ufsdump/ufsrestore on Solaris, my question is, I hope, a simple one: How does one go about restoring a whole filesystem from a savevg, given the info. above. TIA.

 

[tempest92]

hi

checkout the LISTVGBACKUP command.

regards,

gary.

 

[DSMARWAY]

hi ,

uses the restvg command to restore the backup created by
savevg command

e.g. restvg -f /dev/tape hdisk? # you can have more than 1
or specify volume group

man restvg fro more details

 

[KenCunningham]

Thanks - listvgbackup seems the way to go - I'll do a test and see what transpires. There seem so many backup options to AIX it's sometimes difficult to decide on the best/most practical. Thanks again, have a good weekend.