Hello all,
I was told over a year ago that the SysBack/6000 product, which as the same
capabilities as NIM for doing network image backup and restores, was going
to include ADSM as one of the supported data storage types. Unfortunately
I haven't heard anything since.
I agree also that IBM should provide this support via SysBack or NIM. We
would even be willing to pay for it ;-).
Does anyone out there have any influence or know any contacts on the
developer side of these two products?
In the mean time, we NFS mount an HSM filesystem as a staging area for the
mksysb disk images.
Scott.
At 09:23 PM 05/04/9
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>Alan,
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>we are very interested in that topic, too. Right now we use the classic
>combination of (reduced) mksysbs (over the net) and NIM installs to setup a
>basic system and then use ADSM to get back the rest. But our goal is to make
>this a one-step operation.
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>For the restore process AFAIK there is no need to create a special NIM boot
>method. Just run a "bosinst", provide a bundle with the ADSM filesets and
use a
>script to customize ADSM and do a full (or partial) restore.
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>For the backup the easiest method may be using the ADSM "pipeline" API and
>sample programs and hack the mksysb script to use write the data into that
>pipeline. Due to lack of time I did not play with the sample code until now -
>can somebody jump in here?
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>Mit freundlichem Gruss/Best Regards
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>Michael Abel
>IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert - RS/6000 AIX (4.3)
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>"Alan R. White" <arw AT TIPPER.DEMON.CO DOT UK> on 31.03.99 23:33:11
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>Arshad
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>We considered it - its on the todo list. Also considered was a new NIM boot
>method that said why restore from a mksysb image, just pull the files back
>from the ADSM server. Decided eventually IBM should offer this kind of
>functionality as they own all related products, AIX, NIM, ADSM.....
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>On that subject I really wish they would do something with HACMP and ADSM -
>another two products from the same company which don't integrate as easily
>as they could.
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>Regards
>Alan
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Arshad Munir <arshadmunir AT HOTMAIL DOT COM>
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>Date: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 12:18
>Subject: mksysb & ADSM
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>>Hello ADSMers,
>> I have a question:
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>>1) Has anyone tried to do mksysb & try to send it directly
>>to ADSM without creating intermediate file on local file
>>system? If yes how?
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>>Thanks is advance.
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>>Arshad Munir
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Scott McCambly
AIX/NetView/ADSM Specialist - Unopsys Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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