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Operating Systems AIX Using restorevgfiles to restore entire directory from rootvg problems Post 302558466 by bakunin on Friday 23rd of September 2011 03:41:59 PM
Old 09-23-2011
A mksysb is not a normal savevg, but also a boot block and some other information. Since you use mksysbs to boot a machine and restore it there need to be more than just a file backup (which a savevg does, even if in an elaborated way).

The savevg part of a mksysb image is the fourth file on the tape, therefore to restore only some files from a mksysb tape use:

Code:
# (tctl fsf3 ; tar -xvf /dev/rmt0)

This will extract the savevg image which can be restored using restvg. In fact this is simply backup format.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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