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Operating Systems AIX Moving to new AIX server Post 302150927 by bakunin on Thursday 13th of December 2007 03:56:48 AM
Old 12-13-2007
If the old and the new machine have a tape drive: use the tapedrive to create a mksysb tape on the old machine (man mksysb) and use this tape to install the new machine.

Basically a mksysb-image is a "savevg rootvg" along with a bootloader to boot and install from it.

If you do not have a tape drive, but you have another AIX machine, do the following:

make sure this other AIX machine is higher or at least equal in terms of OS release/fix level. (how to check this: man oslevel, man instfix)

- Install on this machine the NIM-server package and configure the machine as NIM server.
- Define the old machine as client to this NIM server, test connection
- on the NIM server, create a NIM-resource of type mksysb (this in fact creates an mksysb which will be bootable too in a file on the NIM-server)
- define the new machine as another NIM client
- allocate the mksysb resource for this machine and start installing via network

In case you want to go with the NIM solution be sure to read the IBM documents about NIM, which is quite a powerful and complex system. Besides the man page there is a good description in the info system and there are some redbooks. You might want to read this post to get some head start about NIM.

In case you have already a NIM server somewhere in your environment you could use this of course.

Beware: It is possible to create an mksysb in a plain file too, instead of a tape or via NIM. This file will NOT be bootable, though and you therefore won't be able to restore the machine from scratch using only this file.

bakunin
 

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BACKUP_ADDHOST(8)					       AFS Command Reference						 BACKUP_ADDHOST(8)

NAME
backup_addhost - Adds a Tape Coordinator entry to the Backup Database SYNOPSIS
backup addhost -tapehost <tape machine name> [-portoffset <TC port offset>] [-localauth] [-cell <cell name>] [-help] backup addh -t <tape machine name> [-p <TC port offset>] [-l] [-c <cell name>] [-h] DESCRIPTION
The backup addhost command creates a Tape Coordinator entry in the Backup Database. The entry records o The host name of the Tape Coordinator machine where the Tape Coordinator (butc) process runs, as specified with the -tapehost argument. o The Tape Coordinator's port offset number, as specified with the -portoffset argument. An entry for the port offset must also appear in the /var/lib/openafs/backup/tapeconfig file on the Tape Coordinator machine, where it is mapped to a UNIX device name (for a tape device) or pathname (for a backup data file). Each Tape Coordinator must have its own port offset number, and the command fails if a Backup Database entry already exists for the requested port offset number. To display existing Tape Coordinator entries, use the backup listhosts command. OPTIONS
-tapehost <tape machine name> Specifies the fully-qualified hostname of the machine for which to create a Tape Coordinator entry in the Backup Database. The machine must have an entry in either the cell's naming service (such as the Domain Name Service) or the host file (/etc/hosts or equivalent) on the machine where the command is issued. -portoffset <TC port offset> Specifies the Tape Coordinator's port offset number. Provide an integer from the range 0 through 58510, or omit this argument to use the default value of 0 (zero). The value must match the port offset number recorded for the same combination of Tape Coordinator and tape device or file in the /var/lib/openafs/backup/tapeconfig file on the Tape Coordinator machine named by the -tapehost argument. -localauth Constructs a server ticket using a key from the local /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile file. The backup command interpreter presents it to the Backup Server, Volume Server and VL Server during mutual authentication. Do not combine this flag with the -cell argument. For more details, see backup(8). -cell <cell name> Names the cell in which to run the command. Do not combine this argument with the -localauth flag. For more details, see backup(8). -help Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored. EXAMPLES
The following command creates an entry in the Backup Database that assigns port offset number 4 to a Tape Coordinator running on the machine "backup1.abc.com": % backup addhost -tapehost backup1.abc.com -portoffset 4 The following command creates a Backup Database entry that assigns port offset number 0 to a Tape Coordinator on the machine "backup3.abc.com": % backup addhost backup3.abc.com PRIVILEGE REQUIRED
The issuer must be listed in the /etc/openafs/server/UserList file on every machine where the Backup Server is running, or must be logged onto a server machine as the local superuser "root" if the -localauth flag is included. SEE ALSO
backup(8), backup_delhost(8), backup_listhosts(8) COPYRIGHT
IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved. This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell. OpenAFS 2012-03-26 BACKUP_ADDHOST(8)
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