On Tue, 29 Nov 1994 11:43:56 EST Paul Zarnowski said:
>On Tue, 29 Nov 1994 09:45:34 EST Melinda Varian said:
>>On Tue, 29 Nov 1994 at 10:50:08 +0100, Reinhard Mersch said:
>>
>>Here at Princeton, we have just completed a rather extensive test of
>>using ADSM to back up and restore SUNs. We encountered four problems:
>>
>We recently used ADSM to restore a volume in the root volume group on an
>AIX system, and it was not straightforward. I would like to see some
>documentation on a good way to do this. I am particularly concerned with
>ODM-related files.
>
I have printed this thread and need to analyize it and understand it,
but let me tell you, I am CONCERNED. We use MKSYSB (now SYSBACK) to
make restorable backups of our volumegroups -- once a week on more
active systems and once a month on the less active. Nightly we do
ADSM incrementals. We have had hardly any hardware or software problems
but have restored 2 systems using this technique:
-- MKSYSB (now SYSBACK) to restore the hard disk areas to the
state they were when backed up
-- ADSM RESTORE to bring filesystems to "last-nites incremental"
level.
Our hardware and software are primarily IBM and our systems implementation
is simplistic, and things seem to be ok. Is this a good backup
policy, or do we need to rethink things. The IBM ADSM group can feel
free to comment here, too. The original posting was SUN related -- is
this also true for IBM hw and AIX sw?
Ray Harder
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