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Operating Systems AIX Must restore data to DR server Post 302261466 by pobman on Monday 24th of November 2008 09:05:22 PM
Old 11-24-2008
Hello,

I have still not managed to get anywhere with this.

I managed to get hold of a USB floppy drive.
Edited the image.data and bosinst.data to display only one disk, was not sure about the PP though how can I tell what I should use? So I left it as 32MB
Followed the IBM manual guide as follows:
Quote:
Create a supplementary diskette

1. Create an ASCII file consisting of one word:
data
2. Save the new ASCII file and name it signature.
3. Copy the signature file to the root directory.
4. Create the supplementary diskette and use it for installation. Back up the edited bosinst.data file and the new signature file to the diskette with the following command:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ai...x.html#clonevg

I rebooted and when the tape booted it hung again at a white screen after the kernel was displayed, the floppy disk light came on then nothing happened for over 30mins, just the white screen with no text or output of any kind.

today I decided I would try another method as I am almost out of ideas.

I created a new rootvg called newvg
I created all 15 lv's in the group
mounted them all under /new
and tried to restore data from my backup tape.
I am having issues with the tape and will wait for a new one.
In the mean while what will I need to do to, rename the existing rootvg to oldvg and rename my new one to rootvg and make it bootable?

Last edited by pobman; 11-24-2008 at 10:12 PM..
 

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dxmtools(1)						      General Commands Manual						       dxmtools(1)

NAME
dxmtools - DOS Tools Graphical User Interface for manipulating files on an MSDOS diskette SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/X11/dxmtools OPTIONS
DESCRIPTION
The DOS Tools application, dxmtools, uses a graphical user interface to copy files to and from an MSDOS formatted diskette to manipulate files on that diskette, in the same manner as the mtools(1) commands, which are accessed from the command line interface. The DOS Tools application accepts the standard X11 resource options. For more information, see the X(1X) reference page Use the DOS Tools application to: Copy a diskette file to Tru64 UNIX Copy Tru64 UNIX files to the diskette Create a directory on the diskette Delete diskette files Format a diskette Change the diskette volume label Change the archive, read-only, hidden, and system attribute bits on a diskette file Display the contents of a diskette file Find a diskette file by its name, size, or attribute settings Rename a diskette file. MSDOS filenames are optionally composed of a drive letter followed by a colon, optional subdirectories, and a filename. Subdirectory names can use either the '/' or '' separator. The current working directory relative to the diskette is A:/. The regular expression pattern matching routines follow the UNIX-style rules. For example, an asterisk (*), in place of asterisks separated by a dot (.) that is *.*, matches all MSDOS files. The archive, hidden, read-only, and system attribute bits are ignored during pattern matching. The DOS Tools application requires a diskette properly installed on the system. The DOS Tools application addresses a device named /dev/disk/floppy; a symbolic link between the diskette device and /dev/disk/floppy is required. Online help is available for the dxmtools application. To get help, click on any Help button or use the Help pull-down menu. The DOS Tools application can be invoked from: The CDE Application Manager. Application Group: Desktop_Apps Desktop_Apps Subgroup: dxmtools EXAMPLES
Invoke the DOS Tools application from the command line. /usr/bin/X11/dxmtools Open the DOS Tools help volume from the command line without running the application. /usr/dt/bin/dthelpview -h /usr/dt/appconfig/help/C/dxmtools.sdl FILES
DOS Tools executable DOS Tools Help Volume Symbolic link for diskette drive. SEE ALSO
Commands: ln(1), mattrib(1), mcd(1), mcopy(1), mdel(1), mdir(1), mlabel(1), mmd(1), mrd(1), mread(1), mren(1), mtools(1), mtype(1), mwrite(1), X(1X) Diskette interface: fd(7) Utilities: MAKEDEV(8), mknod(8) dxmtools(1)
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