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Operating Systems AIX Cloning a system via mksysb backup from one system and restore to new system Post 302968264 by gull04 on Monday 7th of March 2016 04:25:59 AM
Old 03-07-2016
Hi Gull05,

Yes it is possible to create a full backup as follows;

Code:
tctl -f/dev/TAPE rewind
/usr/bin/mksysb -p -v   /dev/TAPE.1
/usr/bin/savevg -p -v -f/dev/TAPE.1 vgdata
/usr/bin/savevg -p -v -f/dev/TAPE.1 vgapps
/usr/bin/savevg -p -v -f/dev/TAPE.1 vgother
tctl -f/dev/TAPE rewind

The example is to tape, but it can go to the NIM server if you have one or to an NFS mounted disk.

Regards

Gull04
 

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LEARN ABOUT OSX

mkdevalloc

mkdevalloc(1M)                                            System Administration Commands                                            mkdevalloc(1M)

NAME

       mkdevalloc - Make device_allocate entries

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/mkdevalloc

DESCRIPTION

       The mkdevalloc command writes to standard out a set of device_allocate(4) entries describing the system's frame buffer, audio and removable
       media devices.

       The mkdevalloc command is used by the init.d(4) scripts to create or update the /etc/security/device_allocate file.

       Entries are generated based on the device special files found in /dev. For the different categories  of  devices,  the  mkdevalloc  command
       checks for the following files under /dev:

       audio           /dev/audio, /dev/audioctl, /dev/sound/...
       tape            /dev/rst*, /dev/nrst*, /dev/rmt/...
       floppy          /dev/diskette, /dev/fd*, /dev/rdiskette, /dev/rfd*
       removable disk  /dev/sr*, /dev/nsr*, /dev/dsk/c0t?d0s?, /dev/rdsk/c0t?d0s?
       frame buffer    /dev/fb

       All  entries  set  the  device-minimum  and device-maximum fields to the hex representations of ADMIN_LOW and ADMIN_HIGH, respectively. The
       device-authorization field is set to solaris.device.allocate, except for the framebuffer entry, where it is  set  to  *.  The  device-name,
       device-type and device-clean fields are set to the following values:

                       device-name      device-type   device-clean

       audio           audio            audio         audio_clean_wrapper
       tape            mag_tape_0,1,... st            st_clean
       floppy          floppy_0,1,...   fd            disk_clean
       removable disk  cdrom_0,1,...    sr            disk_clean
       frame buffer    framebuffer      fb            /bin/true

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability          |Obsolete                     |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       allocate(1), bsmconv(1M), attributes(5)

NOTES

       mkdevalloc might not be supported in a future release of the Solaris operating system.

SunOS 5.10                                                          8 Oct 2003                                                      mkdevalloc(1M)
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