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Operating Systems AIX Using mkdvd to create bootable mksysb on dvd reports success but nothing on dvd? Post 302967705 by rbatte1 on Friday 26th of February 2016 04:19:26 PM
Old 02-26-2016
When I've done this process, I've always had a few steps to it:-
  • Clean up anything left from last time, e.g. old files, filesystems or logical volumes
  • Run mkszfile to ensure that the filesystem sizes are recorded correctly
  • Run savevg excluding all the files to collect the information about all the non-rootvg volume groups, saving the detail somewhere within rootvg
  • Run mksysb writing to a file on disk in a specified area outside the rootvg with the -e flag to exclude files in /etc/exclude.rootvg
  • Run mkdvd specifying the mksysb file created in the previous step
It may not be perfect, but it works very well and I even managed to edit the data files used by savevg to specify non-mirrored logical volumes in case we recover to a server without sufficient disk space to have the mirrors.

Sadly I have now lost access to the AIX servers I have worked on so I cannot share it.

I hope that at least this process might help.



Robin
 

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cdde.xml(5)															       cdde.xml(5)

NAME
cdde.xml - Configuration file for cdde DESCRIPTION
When cdde is run for the first time, an example xml configuration file (~/.cdde.xml) is created for you: <?xml version="1.0"?> <cdde delay="5000000"> <drive path="/dev/cdrom"> <audio command="echo An audio cd was inserted."/> <data command="echo A data cd was inserted."/> <dvd command="echo A dvd was inserted."/> <vcd command="echo A vcd was inserted."/> <svcd command="echo A svcd was inserted."/> <blank command="echo A blank cdr/dvdr was inserted."/> <mixed command="echo A mixed (audio/data) cd was inserted."/> </drive> </cdde> This default file is not very useful, and so I suggest you to edit it to your needs before running cdde again. You may add as many drive entries, or commands as you like. If multiple entries are found for a type of disc then all entries will be run in the order they are found. The specific device in use can be passed to the command with one of the following special tags: %dev% - is replaced with the device name of the cdrom that just had a disc inserted %mnt% - is replaced with the listed mount point for the cdrom that just had a disc inserted Note: %mnt% is determined through your fstab (usually located in /etc) file. If you do not have a listing for each <drive> in the fstab this will cause problems. This way, you can tell your video player which device to use when playing a VCD, for example. EXAMPLE
This is an example of ~/.cdde.xml file: <?xml version="1.0"?> <cdde delay="5000000"> <drive path="/dev/cdroms/cdrom0"/> <audio command="xmms %mnt%"/> <data command="mount %mnt%"/> <dvd command="xterm -iconic -e mplayer -fs -xineramascreen 1 -dvd 1"/> <vcd command="xterm -iconic -e mplayer -fs -xineramascreen 1 -vcd 1"/> <svcd command="xterm -iconic -e mplayer -fs -xineramascreen 1 -vcd 1"/> <blank command="gcombust"/> <mixed command="mount %mnt%"/> </drive> </cdde> FILES
~/.cdde.xml SEE ALSO
cdde(1) AUTHORS
Eric Lathrop <eric@ericlathrop.com> Stanislav Maslovski <stanislav.maslovski@gmail.com> WEBSITE
For the latest release of cdde, see: http://cdde.sourceforge.net/ Eric Lathrop 0.3.1 cdde.xml(5)
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