12-18-2012
[Solved] Clone or mirror your AIX OS larger disk to smaller disk ?
hello folks,
I have a 300GB ROOTVG volume groups with one filesystem /backup having 200GB allocated space
Now, I cannot alt disk clone or mirrorvg this hdisk with another smaller disk. The disk size has to be 300GB; I tried alt disk clone and mirrorvg , it doesn't work. you cannot copy LVs as operating system has some lv which cannot be copied other than mirrorvg..
is there a way to make another smaller hdisk = 10GB have a copy of only the AIX operating system from the already existing hdisk which is 300GB ?
thanks
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UKOPP(1) Ukopp man page UKOPP(1)
NAME
Ukopp - copy files to USB stick or other disk or disk-like device
SYNOPSIS
ukopp [ -nogui ] [ -job | -run ] jobfile
DESCRIPTION
Ukopp is a graphical menu-driven program operating in its own
window. Ukopp copies the files and directories specified in the
job file to disk or disk-like media (e.g. USB stick).
OVERVIEW
Ukopp works incrementally: only files that are not already identical
on the target media are copied (new and modified files or files newly
added to the backup job). Files/directories to include or exclude can
be selected from the file system hierarchy, using a GUI navigator.
Specifications are saved in a job file which can be re-edited and/or
executed. Ukopp can be run in batch mode using the -nogui option.
Ukopp can optionally keep old file versions instead of replacing them
with updated versions. The retention time and/or the number of old
versions to keep can be specified for each selected file or directory.
File owners and permissions are retained even if the copy media has a
Microsoft file system.
Summary of functionality:
- Copy files incrementally with optional file version retention.
- Three media verification modes: full, incremental, compare.
- Report disk:backup differences in detail or summary form.
- Select and restore files from backup media or use drag and drop.
OPTIONS
Command line options:
[ -job ] jobfile open job file for editing
[ -nogui ] -run jobfile execute a job file
SEE ALSO
The online user manual is available using the menu Help > contents.
This manual explains Ukopp operation in great detail.
AUTHORS
Written by Michael Cornelison <kornelix2@googlemail.com>
Linux 2010-10-01 UKOPP(1)