It can't handel raw filesystems.

Peter Gathercole
Open Systems Consultant

Daniel Casey wrote:

> I may have missed part of this thread, but I have a question
> concerning what is mentioned below.
>
> Can or doea ADSM backup Raw LV's on AIX?  How is ADSM told to
> backup a RAW LV rather than a file or directory?  What about
> Volume Groups?
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> jistdc1 AT mail.jbhunt DOT com
>
> Barry Fruchtman <bf AT US.IBM DOT COM> on 08/05/98 11:59:26 AM
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> cc:    (bcc: Daniel Casey/Corporate/JBHunt)
> Subject:  ADSM >2GB volume support
>
> Some historical notes:
>
>    Support for >2GB raw logical volumes and JFS files
> for server db, log, and storage volumes was first released
> in ADSM V2 level 13.  It is present in all levels of version 3.
>    On a migration install of AIX 4.2/4.3 from 4.1/3.2, symbolic
> links were not updated to point to the AIX 4.2+ specific
> versions of dsmfmt and dsmserv ( installed as dsmfmt.42
> and dsmserv.42 ).  They would confinue to point to dsmfmt.41
> and dsmserv.41.
>   The 4.2+ executables use new APIs in
> AIX  that require 64-bit operands to handle addressing of
> files with offsets beyond 2GB.  New executables were
> needed since the 4.2+ specific versions won't even load
> in lower levels of AIX.
>
> Barry Fruchtman
> ADSM Development
> bf AT us.ibm DOT com