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06-13-2008

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AIX 5.2 Maksysb Image backup/restore

Hello,

I am new to AIX, as I was primarily working on HP-UX servers.

We have some production servers and a couple of lab servers. We have upgraded over 40 servers from 5.2 to 5.3 running a particular application(1) using the golden 5.3 upgraded servers copy of makesysb. We have only two servers left to migrate from 5.2 to 5.3. These servers are running a different application(2) which has a Primary and Replica status.

The OS configurations are the same on the two servers application(2), but different than the 40 application(1) servers. We were wanting to peform a makesysb on the Primary AIX 5.2 server/application(2) and send it to a DAT tape. We would then take the DAT tape makesysb and install it on one of our LAB servers. We would then upgrade the lab server to 5.3 and create a makesysb. It sounds so simple!

The problem is we received a system email stating some of the following:

* Installing from a tape backup whose boot image is too large
* Backing up DMAPI filesystems
* 0512-064

Installing from a tape backup whose boot image is too large

This makes it sound like we are not going to be able to restore our lab server with the Primary AIX 5.2 makesysb.

How do we get a good makesysb from an AIX 5.2 server?
How do we install it on our LAB server?

Thank you!

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NAME

       slist - Lists available NetWare Servers

SYNOPSIS

       slist [ pattern ]

DESCRIPTION

       slist lists all NetWare Servers available in your network.

       If slist does not print to a tty, the decorative header line is not printed, so that you can count the servers on your network by doing

       slist | wc -l

OPTIONS

       pattern
	  pattern is used to list only servers whose names match the specified pattern. For a server to be listed, the pattern must match the full
	  server name. You can use wildcards for the pattern, but you must protect these wildcards from any command  line  expansion  by  quoting.
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EXAMPLE

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       or

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	      List all available Netware servers on your Network, that begin with an "I".

SEE ALSO

       ncpmount(8), ncpumount(8), pqlist(1), nprint(1)

CREDITS

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