Thanks. How often are you running the mksysb? Also, this might
work for my AIX clients, but does nothing for the others (IRIX,
Solaris, Digital Unix, etc).
Isn't anyone doing this with lots of different Unixen?
Pat Wilson
paw AT dartmouth DOT edu
Mathew Warren <MWarren AT TANDB.CO DOT UK> writes:
> Hello,
>
> At the moment we are taking separate mksysb's of our unix clients and backin
g up everything alse we need via ADSM.
>
> For a bare metal restore we bring back the mksysb, then restore using the AD
SM client.
>
> Matthew Warren.
>
> >>> Pat Wilson <paw AT NORTHSTAR.DARTMOUTH DOT EDU> 01/26 2:51 pm >>>
> Hmm. It's been my naive understanding all this time that if
> I slapped an OS and the ADSM client on a unix box, I could
> restore the whole thing - now it looks like that's not the
> case (or at least it's not that simple). ADSM won't restore
> over open files, apparently (not that I really blame it), among
> other things.
>
> So - how _is_ everyone providing DRM on Unix machines? The straightforward
> approach would be to dump / and /usr locally, but I'm trying to get
> _away_ from having to do local dumps and having local tape drives - that's
> the whole point of investing in ADSM. This is a heterogenous shop, so
> one vendor's solution (NIM and mksysb for AIX, for example) isn't going to
> work for everything...
>
> Thanks.
>
> Pat Wilson
> paw AT dartmouth DOT edu
>
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