Matthew - Do you have a tape drive on each AIX host or are you creating
non-bootable disk backups?

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Mathew Warren wrote:

> Hello,
>
> At the moment we are taking separate mksysb's of our unix clients and backing 
> up everything alse we need via ADSM.
>
> For a bare metal restore we bring back the mksysb, then restore using the 
> ADSM 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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