I agree with Wanda.  I would add that we netboot/customize when we have a
complete failure on the rootvg.  The mksysb's are made weekly and stored on
node pairs (in addition to being backed up to ADSM).  In this manner we can
get the rootvg rebuilt without going to tape, and then get picky about what
we really need to bring back.

Make sure that boot self-discovery and the ODM do not disagree (you never
know after a while of small hardware changes - this has bit us in the
past).  Then once you've restored /dev and other important directories make
sure it matches the physical.

David





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Yeah, been there done that about 9 months ago, and on an SP node, I think
at
AIX 4.3.2.
Nothing sneaky;
Just as you are doing, we reloaded the image from a mksysb tape, then
restored each filesystem from TSM to get current.

If you've got multiple tape drives, open another window and start the
restore of /home in parallel with /var -- and you can go /home faster!