04-03-2008
Due to office political reasons I cannot run mksysb to tape in one of my offices, though there are two robots attached to the AIX server, each with a tape drive. What I do is use mkcd and create iso images, sftp them to a Windows box on the same LAN. Then if things really go south I can burn those to CD and recover that way. There is also the mkdvd command if your AIX server can read DVD's. Mine can't, don't ask.
I've detailed the smitty use of the mkcd command at the url
mksyscd ? - comp.unix.aix | Google Groups
After you have created the iso's using smit you can automate the command by picking it out of ~/smit.script. To automate you would want to remove the temporary file systems after using mkcd/mkdvd. YMMV.
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