From my point of view without purchasing a third party product you could
in case of a AIX *SM client system
a) perform a mksysb to filesystem
b) backup the image with *SM backup/archive client
c) setup a NIM master, preferably on your *SM server
d) restore image from *SM to local filespace
e) configure NIM objects
d) reinstall from NIM master if client is destroyed
All needed steps can be easyly automated.

In case of your *SM server the mksysb image shoudn't be stored inside
the same *SM server, because you don't have any possibility to get the
image back when your system is smashed. The only way with a single *SM
server is to do mksysb backups to one of the local attached tapes. But
you could store your server image into _another_ *SM server. The only
thing you have to have in addition is a secondary NIM master (preferably
the second *SM server), which you can use to restore your first *SM
server.

If you have questions in concern of implementing a NIM server, please
contact me directly.

Regards,
Gottfried
Xtelligent IT Consulting, http://www.xtelligent.de

Steve Harris wrote:
>
> You can't.
>
> This sort of functionality (i.e. mksysb across a network) is available
> using IBM's sysback product.
> You can use this to backup to another machine's disk  or tape and also to
> restore the rootvg across the network.
>
> I have an idea that NIM has similar functionality, but I've never explored
> it.  Sysback is a good product and reasonably priced, last I looked.
>
> Regards
>
> Steve Harris,
> AIX/ADSM/Oracle/HACMP Guy,
> The Wesley Hospital, Brisbane Australia
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> Shekhar Dhotre <Shekhar.Dhotre.B AT BAYER DOT COM>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 
> 28/07/2000
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> Sorry , i mean to say  how we can make  mksysb in  copypool or tapepool.
>  TSM software will always be in rootvg as it is installed in
> /usr/tivoili/tsm
> directory.
> i am thinking from client side , My client includes AIX  machines also.
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