Hot Diggety! Jolley, Bill was rumored to have written: Offhand, best bet is probably to do a mksysb backup (making sure that device drivers for both boxes exists, among other key gotchas) and then a
Author: "Jolley, Bill" <bill.jolley AT EDS DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 12:50:22 -0400
Here is what I need to accomplish or would like to. Create a mksysb of the SP Node, copy the image to media. At the recovery site, I will need to restore this image to the standalone rs6000. I do not
Author: David Longo <David.Longo AT HEALTH-FIRST DOT ORG>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 13:06:50 -0400
Do you have a tape drive physically attached to the SP node? If so then you can do fairly easily. If not then I think you need AIX Sysback to make a mksysb to a remote tape. You can't make a mksysb i
Author: "Jolley, Bill" <bill.jolley AT EDS DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 12:40:55 -0500
No, I do not have a tape drive attached to the SP node. I have introduced AIX sysback as an alternative. Several colleagues stated that you could boot from cdrom and use the image on tape as input an
Author: David Longo <David.Longo AT HEALTH-FIRST DOT ORG>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 14:30:31 -0400
You will want to use the CDROM to boot from, that saves you having to put the required code that is needed for your "disaster" machine on your current SP node. How that works is (briefly): Boot from
Author: "Kauffman, Tom" <KauffmanT AT NIBCO DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 14:32:27 -0500
It's been a while since my SP frames went away, so take this with a grain of salt - - At one point, sysback could not be used to 'clone' an AIX system; you needed a mksysb image (and the install cd).
Author: "Jolley, Bill" <bill.jolley AT EDS DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 16:07:44 -0400
I was told that sysback would recognize the hardware and not install the PSSP stuff. Well, the customer I support fail to ask for input, and subscribed to all standalones. This is the only SP server