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[nsavva]

Hi,



I need some help for the following:



1. Is TSM capable to perform System Backup on AIX box?

2. Is TSM capable to perform Volume Group Backup?

3. Is TSM capable to perform File System Backup?



Thanks

 

[heada]

TSm itself will not perform a mksysb (or sysback) or a savevg. It WILL backup all files on a system, so as long as you can boot and run the client, you can restore the system. I have ~90 AIX servers and perform a mksysb on each one weekly. I have a NIM server to push them back out if needed. It works very well. I don't have a requirement to do a seperate savevg, so that's not in my plan.



-Aaron

 

[xender69]

Aaron,

how do you do a mksysb backup??? using nim??? So, you just do a full backup of all your systems and then reinstall the client using the nim image and then use the TSM to restore a system???

 

[heada]

I have a 60GB filesystem on the TSM server that I NFS mount to all the AIX client servers. On a once-a-week rotation (about 15 servers per day) I mount the NFS filesystem and run this command "mksysb -X -i /mnt/bos.obj.$HOSTNAME" I then do an archive-delete once per day to write those mksysb images to tape and remove them from the OS (I use a mgtclass that keeps the data for 60 days).



If (and I've only used this twice since putting it in place 2 years ago) I need to restore an OS, I restore the mksysb image to my NIM server (change the nodename in the dsm.sys) I then use NIM to push out the mksysb.



Since I keep all application data on other-then-rootvg disks, all I have to do is import the other VGs via "importvg -y {vgname} {hdisk}" and all the other data is back.



If you have more detailed questions, please feel free to drop me an email. [email protected]