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Re: AIX Disaster Recovery

1995-10-04 13:29:03
Subject: Re: AIX Disaster Recovery
From: Michael Bryant <michael.bryant AT CCMAIL.FINGERHUT DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 11:29:03 CST
Kevin wrote:
>Trying to work through the testing and documenting in the recovery of an AIX
>client. Current thinking is to use Sysback to backup the operating environment
>and ADSM to restore the rest. Does anyone have a process in place that can
share
>it with us? Would appreciate any response. Thanks.
>Kevin Balmer
>Providian Corp.

I am having the SUN people documenting the process they have created which they
tell me will also work on the AIX environment.  The gist of this process is that
we perform a ufsbackup, nightly, of the special blocked files to a directory on
the client.  Then ADSM does an incremental backup of the client.

This gives the SUN people enough so that if they lose the hard drive on the
client, then they execute a script that:
    1)  defines the file systems
    2) copies the system software from another client and fires off the restore
    3) performs a ufsrestore of the special blocked files
    4) reboots the machine

They have tested this script and it worked.  As you can tell I don't DO unix,
yet!!  This process should be applicable to AIX.
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