Hi Lindy,

        What you would like to do is not that very difficult. Like Jason
Barkes said;
        make a mksysb to a local filesystem and backup/archive is to TSM.=
 We
do it like that, but we use NIM to restore a MKSYSB over the network.

        An other option is mkcd, which is included in AIX 4.3.3.
        With this u can put a ksysb directly on a cd, even span multiple
volumes.
        The cd can also be made bootable. Take a look here:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/cmds/aixcmds3/mkcd=
.ht
m


        Hope this helps...


Ilja G. Coolen


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