This is off-topic for this thread (it was concerning server support for
db, log, and disk stgpool volumes >2GB, whether it be raw LV or JFS),
but you could look at adsmpipe.

Adsmpipe is a tar-like program written to use the client API.  Using
this with dd should give you the ability to back up raw lv's, however
adsmpipe itself is not supported and it is up to you to keep track of
the map the pseudo-tar file name to LV name.

Cheers...
Bruce

Peter Gathercole wrote:
>
> It can't handel raw filesystems.
>
> Peter Gathercole
> Open Systems Consultant
>
> Daniel Casey wrote:
>
> > I may have missed part of this thread, but I have a question
> > concerning what is mentioned below.
> >
> > Can or doea ADSM backup Raw LV's on AIX?  How is ADSM told to
> > backup a RAW LV rather than a file or directory?  What about
> > Volume Groups?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Daniel
> > jistdc1 AT mail.jbhunt DOT com
> >
> > Barry Fruchtman <bf AT US.IBM DOT COM> on 08/05/98 11:59:26 AM
> >
> > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> >
> > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > cc:    (bcc: Daniel Casey/Corporate/JBHunt)
> > Subject:  ADSM >2GB volume support
> >
> > Some historical notes:
> >
> >    Support for >2GB raw logical volumes and JFS files
> > for server db, log, and storage volumes was first released
> > in ADSM V2 level 13.  It is present in all levels of version 3.
> >    On a migration install of AIX 4.2/4.3 from 4.1/3.2, symbolic
> > links were not updated to point to the AIX 4.2+ specific
> > versions of dsmfmt and dsmserv ( installed as dsmfmt.42
> > and dsmserv.42 ).  They would confinue to point to dsmfmt.41
> > and dsmserv.41.
> >   The 4.2+ executables use new APIs in
> > AIX  that require 64-bit operands to handle addressing of
> > files with offsets beyond 2GB.  New executables were
> > needed since the 4.2+ specific versions won't even load
> > in lower levels of AIX.
> >
> > Barry Fruchtman
> > ADSM Development
> > bf AT us.ibm DOT com