Hi,

I think that you are getting a little confused between device drivers
and devices. Your /dev directory contains only devices. These devices
are termed special files. The special files in the /dev directory allow
us to communicate with the devices directly.

Now ADSM does not backup special files, and in the case of /dev it
shouldn't need to as under AIX even if you remove everything from
/dev it can be recreated by running either cfgmgr or rebooting the
machine.

Regards,  John Newman.

>
>Hi Gang,
>Pardon my newbie-ness.
>
>My unix admin is distressed to learn that /dev is not backed up by adsm  and
>is interested in knowing when/if adsm development is planning on adding this
>feature.  I realize he can include /dev in his sys backups ...
>
>Also, I thought I saw something about a VMS client somewhere in a note
>from this server?
>
>Appreciate your thoughts,
>Dave.
>