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Operating Systems AIX Backup software for AIX Post 302909923 by bakunin on Monday 21st of July 2014 11:02:03 AM
Old 07-21-2014
rbatte1 gave a very sound advice. To expand on what he said:

Quote:
Originally Posted by madmacher
Hi ,
this is a little off the path , but
I need to backup some RS/6000 AIX servers, and wondered what partitions/files , i would need if I need to restore it from tape ,
Filesystems - logical volumes - are organised in "volume groups" in AIX. The base of every system is the "rootvg", which holds all the vital LVs for the system to work ("/", "/usr", "/var", swapspace, etc.). The "mksysb" utility backups exactly this volume group and adds provisions to boot from such an image. With a working "mksysb" image it is possible to take a naked (sufficiently similar) hardware and reconstruct the system, completely configured (users, interfaces, groups, printqueues, and so on).

In most environments the basic backup plan is: take a "system backup" used to restore the system in case of hardware failure to a backup system. Then take data backups from the rest, used to restore the systems data, should the necessity arise.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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BACKUP_DELDUMP(8)					       AFS Command Reference						 BACKUP_DELDUMP(8)

NAME
backup_deldump - Deletes a dump level from the Backup Database SYNOPSIS
backup deldump -dump <dump level name> [-localauth] [-cell <cell name>] [-help] backup deld -d <dump level name> [-l] [-c <cell name>] [-h] DESCRIPTION
The backup deldump command deletes the indicated dump level and all of its child dump levels from the dump hierarchy in the Backup Database. Use the backup listdumps command to display the dump hierarchy. OPTIONS
-dump <dump level name> Specifies the complete pathname of the dump level to delete. -localauth Constructs a server ticket using a key from the local /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile file. The backup command interpreter presents it to the Backup Server, Volume Server and VL Server during mutual authentication. Do not combine this flag with the -cell argument. For more details, see backup(8). -cell <cell name> Names the cell in which to run the command. Do not combine this argument with the -localauth flag. For more details, see backup(8). -help Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored. EXAMPLES
The following command deletes the dump level "/sunday1/monday1" from the dump hierarchy, along with any of its child dump levels. % backup deldump /sunday1/monday1 PRIVILEGE REQUIRED
The issuer must be listed in the /etc/openafs/server/UserList file on every machine where the Backup Server is running, or must be logged onto a server machine as the local superuser "root" if the -localauth flag is included. SEE ALSO
backup(8), backup_adddump(8), backup_listdumps(8) COPYRIGHT
IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved. This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell. OpenAFS 2012-03-26 BACKUP_DELDUMP(8)
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