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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Installation through mksysb image backup Post 302905536 by aix.rockie on Thursday 12th of June 2014 05:31:27 AM
Old 06-12-2014
Thanks Robin for the quick response with the great explanations.

We are creating this for some testing purpose, we are hoping to do this next week with writing mksysb on the DVD as you said.

Thanks
Rockie
 

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NAME
cloudservers - Command-line interface to the Cloud Servers API. SYNOPSIS
cloudservers [ --username USERNAME ] [ --apikey APIKEY ] <subcommand> DESCRIPTION
cloudservers is a command line interface to the Rackspace Cloud Servers API. COMMAND OVERVIEW
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