Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: mksysb
Operating Systems AIX mksysb Post 302215665 by zaxxon on Thursday 17th of July 2008 12:51:00 AM
Old 07-17-2008
Quote:
Do you think that it the best to have a mksysb of rootvg if I have a mirror on this box.
What do you do if the mirror fails, both disks die a horrible death or the place where your server stood, is empty on next morning?!
No mirror, complex raid array placed at different locations etc. could not convince me to take no mksysb. The mksysb is your last resort.

On paging space:
I don't know the official recommendation of the paging space today (RAM * 1,25?), but we usually have it somewhat small. On most boxes it's at least as large as the current RAM it has. When anything starts to swap, it doesn't matter if you have 4 GB paging space or 20 GB, because the box will be very slow and it has to be either tuned with vmo or needs more RAM, which has to be determined (or not).
For splitting paging space to SAN disks, I see no problem with this. We don't do that and keep it on internal mirrored disks, but currently I have no idea what should be bad about it... maybe a point of possible failure more.

But honour your mksysb!
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. AIX

mksysb...

Hi friends.. My one problem is not resolved yet I have another. I am planning to take an OS backup of my p550 using "mksysb". Now i am confussed. suppose I give the command to take the backup into a tape drive and my backup size exceeds the tape capacity.. what will happen? will it ask for... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: balaji_prk
2 Replies

2. AIX

Problem with MKSYSB

Am taking a tape backup and the error output shows this. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ====== mksysb errors from /opt/uss/log/run_mksysb.stdout: 0512-038 mksysb: Backup Completed Successfully. ====== mksysb errors from /opt/uss/log/run_mksysb.stderr: ... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: balaji_prk
1 Replies

3. AIX

mksysb

I dont have either a tape drive or a DVD Writer attached to the AIX box. Can you let me know the possibilities of making an mksysb in a bootable media? This is required as we have a requirement to upgrade the OS. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: chrisanto_2000
2 Replies

4. AIX

mksysb issue

Hi, guys I have experience in UNIX, but more in hpux, have done an mksysb in an Aix server 5.3, and then restore in other server with same model, everithing fine but no TCP/IP configuration and hostname its like "localhost" after the restore. It's something wrong? I've change the configuration,... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: uadm26
5 Replies

5. AIX

mksysb backup

hi guys, i just want to take my server's mksysb backup through dvd-rom.but am having the doubt that, while am taking the mksysb backup in image it shows 8GB. So can i confirm that it takes 2 dvds and after writing in 1st cd it will ask for 2nd cd?????? please help me out. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rrlog
1 Replies

6. AIX

Mksysb message

Hello, I'm starting a mksysb with the help of a unix script and the crontab. The script is scheduled with crontab and executes "mksysb -i -X /dev/rmt0". When the mksysb is completed the script displays the endtime. But I also get a lot of cat messages (see below). When I look with "ps -ef... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Peter_e
2 Replies

7. AIX

Help with mksysb

Hi All, Working on AIX 4.2 system. On this server there is no tape drive or a DVD Writer attached to the AIX box. I was able to do mksysb, but I got warning message saying it will not be bootable. On the new system, I did install 5.3 and now I need to restore this mksysb image from the... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: samnyc
5 Replies

8. AIX

Need to take MKSYSB backup

Hi, Can any one suggest me how to take the mksysb backup in CD (VCD/DVD). I have tried like #mkcd -d /dev/cd0, but its not working. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: oprakash
3 Replies

9. AIX

mksysb backup

hi we are having one rootvg in that we created one lv named mksysb_backuplv and normally script will run accordingly to take the backup in the cron,here i just want to know if any rootfilesystem was correpted like /usr or /tmp ,then how could i restore the particular filesystme from the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: senmak
1 Replies

10. AIX

savevg - mksysb

Hello, I use commands savevg & mksysb to do backups on an AIX server. Frequently, I have a return code 3. I would know why, but after searches, I did'nt find. If somebody know ... Tell me. Thanks. emetra (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: emetra
2 Replies
GENBOX(1)						      General Commands Manual							 GENBOX(1)

NAME
genrbox - generate a RADIANCE description of a box SYNOPSIS
genrbox mat name xsiz ysiz zsiz [ -i ][ -r rad | -b bev ] DESCRIPTION
Genbox produces a RADIANCE scene description of a parallelepiped with one corner at the origin and the opposite corner at (xsiz, ysiz, zsiz). The sides of the box will be parallel to the three coordinate planes. The surfaces that make up the box will be modified by mat and their identifiers will begin with name. The -i option can be used to produce a box with inward directed surface normals. The -r option can be used to specify the radius for rounded edges. The -b option can be used to specify the indentation for beveled edges. EXAMPLE
To produce a rectangular box made of wood with beveled edges: genrbox wood box1 5 8 3 -b .5 > box1 AUTHOR
Greg Ward BUGS
Because spheres and cylinders are used to construct boxes with rounded edges, a transparent box of this type appears quite messy. SEE ALSO
genrev(1), gensurf(1), genworm(1), rpict(1), rvu(1), xform(1) RADIANCE
11/15/93 GENBOX(1)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 01:48 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy