On Tuesday 26 October 2004 23:04, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote:
> The mail system resides on an AIX server. The storage is in a SAN !
>
> For the OS, it is irrelevant since you would have to reinstall AIX, anyway
> !.
That's easy, use an mksysb to backup the rootvg, I don't understand why you 
ever should reinstall AIX ????  You can restore the mksysb on a new machine 
without problems and you are up and running in no time.  One of the best DR 
procedures available !!
Use a seperate volume group for the data and use tsm to backup the data.  You 
can do this incremental or with an image, or a combination of both depending 
on the restore / backup requirements.

> However, we have seen lots of applications that store their files and data
> as part of /etc, /usr, /home, etc.  We even have one "client" that decided
> to link/share /usr/local among many systems.
As long as you know where the data is stored, you are fine.  Exclude the data 
in the mksysb and use tsm to backup the data.

Stef

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