A lot depends on the flavor of Unix that you are using. In theory it should be
possible to hook a disk up to another server, partition it (if that Unix uses
partitioning), make the filesystems, mount them onto the system in the correct
heirarchy, but hung off another directory, and then restore the files using a
target of the top of the new directory heirarchy. For example, you would mount
the partition you wish to use as / as /othersystem, mount the partition that
will be /usr as /othersystem/usr etc.

You could then use "dsmc restore -fromnode=systemtorestore / /othersystem.

You would have to do this for each filesystem or filespace.

This is only half the story, however. It would be necessary to re-build whatever
is regarded as the boot record for that flavor of Unix. This is almost certainly
possible, but it would be necessary to know how to do it for that particulat
Unix. I cannot tell you how to do this without knowing which Unix varient, and
even then I may not be familier with that Unix.

Peter Gathercole
Open Systems Consultant

Karen Krowzack wrote:

> I understand that there is no "bare metal restore" capability for UNIX
> systems.  However, if a major filesystem(s) or disk is lost, is ADSM capable
> of restoring a filesystem onto a replacement disk that you hook up to a 2nd
> server?  If so, how do you tell ADSM to direct the restoration of the
> filesystem(s) solely to that replacement disk?
>
> Or is the only restore procedure in use the process whereby you boot from
> bootable media, restore the major OS filesystems from tape and then restore
> whatever else is desired from ADSM?
>
> Thanks as always for any ideas.  They are truly appreciated.
>
> Karen Krowzack
> IBM Global Services
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