It's been a while since my SP frames went away, so take this with a grain of
salt - -
At one point, sysback could not be used to 'clone' an AIX system; you needed
a mksysb image (and the install cd). I don't know if this has changed. I do
know from experience that the system you will be restoring to at the hotsite
won't match your contract spec (it will be at least as good as, and possibly
better -- like no 10 Mb ethernet, just 10/100 Mb, with different device
drivers).
Also, with no CWS, you'll need to research how to disable most of the PSSP
code on the node. Code that, among other things, does a node lookup in the
SDR (on the CWS) to get the IP addresses for your network connections. This
may take some doing (my experience ends at PSSP 3.2).
Is this the ONLY SP node you need to recover? Or is this a case of "our
recovery site doesn't have an SP"?
I've done stand-alone recoveries and SP recoveries, but I've never tried to
do a crossover like this.
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jolley, Bill [mailto:bill.jolley AT EDS DOT COM]
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 1:28 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Recovering SP node to Standalone RS6000
>
>
> I cannot use NIM because I will not have access to the NIM
> server at the DR
> site.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Whicker [mailto:daniel.whicker AT SOLIDSYSTEMS DOT COM]
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 2:06 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Recovering SP node to Standalone RS6000
>
>
> Bill, your colleague was correct, you can restore a non
> bootable mksysb
> tape using an install cd. As opposed to doing that, though,
> just backup
> your mksysb to a file on your CWS, and then use NIM to restore that
> mksysb onto your new node. It will handle the tough stuff
> for ya. You
> can also do a savevg for all non-rootvg vgs. Still doesn't
> get any raw
> devices though, like SysBack will.
>
> On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 12:40, Jolley, Bill wrote:
> > No, I do not have a tape drive attached to the SP node. I
> have introduced
> > AIX sysback as an alternative. Several colleagues stated
> that you could
> > boot from cdrom and use the image on tape as input and
> basically I am
> > restored. I disagreed. But thanks. Sysback appears to be
> much easier than
> > jumping through hoops.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Longo [mailto:David.Longo AT HEALTH-FIRST DOT ORG]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 1:07 PM
> > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject: Re: Recovering SP node to Standalone RS6000
> >
> >
> > Do you have a tape drive physically attached to the SP node?
> > If so then you can do fairly easily. If not then I think you need
> > AIX Sysback to make a mksysb to a remote tape. You can't make
> > a mksysb image to disk and then copy that image to tape - it's
> > not a bootable image.
> >
> > David Longo
> >
> > >>> bill.jolley AT EDS DOT COM 05/02/02 12:50PM >>>
> > Here is what I need to accomplish or would like to. Create
> a mksysb of
> the
> > SP Node, copy the image to media. At the recovery site, I
> will need to
> > restore this image to the standalone rs6000. I do not know
> if this is
> > possible even if I use the cloning process.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) [mailto:bp3965 AT SBC DOT COM]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 12:30 PM
> > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject: Re: Recovering SP node to Standalone RS6000
> >
> >
> > Connect to node and say shutdown -m
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jolley, Bill [mailto:bill.jolley AT EDS DOT COM]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:52 AM
> > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject: Recovering SP node to Standalone RS6000
> >
> >
> > I have a TSM server located on an IBM SP Node (winterhawk)
> and would like
> to
> > recover to a standalone RS/6000 (H80). Do anyone have/know
> of a procedure
> or
> > have suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bill Jolley
> > EDS SS-SEMainframe Services
> > Telephone:704-548-5524
> > Email:bill.jolley AT eds DOT com
> > Pager:704-354-6967
> >
> > <<Jolley, Bill.vcf>>
> >
> >
> >
> > "MMS <health-first.org>" made the following
> > annotations on 05/02/02 13:21:23
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