hi,

i'm having a little trouble with an AIX 5.2 script that i have written and i was wondering if anyone could please offer me some advice on how to append a savevg backup to a mksysb tape, or more importantly where i'm going wrong? i've been trying to get this to work for about a month with no joy now.

here's a cut down version of my script:
the problem that i am having is that if i run this script i get the following error from the restore commands:

restore: 0511-160 Cannot read the backup media
/dev/rmt0.1: There is an input or output error

with the tape rewound, if i run a restore -Tvqf /dev/rmt0 it lists the files in DEV_VG. this made me think that the tape was rewinding before running the savevg command for some reason.

if i change the backups to use the rmt0 device and manually do all my rewinding and fast forwarding with tctl i get the same errors as the restore command gives me.

if i run a /usr/bin/mksysb -ipX /dev/rmt0 then a restore -Tvqf /dev/rmt0 it lists the files in the rootvg. if i then run a tctl -f /dev/rmt0.1 fsf 1 i then receive the following error:

restore: 0511-262 Read an unexpected end of file.

from what i've read a mksysb should put the files on the 3rd segment of the backup, is this correct? my mksysb doesn't seem to follow the documented standard.

thanks in advance.

james.

edit: sorry for the double post. must have been caused by a timeout while editing my OP.