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Operating Systems AIX How to clone an AIX 5.3? Post 302976045 by bakunin on Thursday 23rd of June 2016 02:47:45 AM
Old 06-23-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by gull05
Can you please suggest how i can go further , also can you brief about the mksysb command for me please.Thanks
An mksysb is a backup image of the rootvg along with some code to make the image bootable and restorable. You take it, boot a blank system with this image and have an exact duplicate, save for the IP adresses (there is a special point in the boot process to enter new IP addresses to avoid duplicates).

All this information could you have gleaned from the man page, as gull04 has suggested you do. Basically a mksysb does a backupvg rootvg (for the backupvg command see the man page) and ultimately uses backup (has also a man page - read it) to do the backup.

To understand what is in this image do the following command on your system:

Code:
lsvg -l rootvg

You will see a list of filesystems similar to this one:

Code:
# lsvg -l rootvg
rootvg:
LV NAME             TYPE       LPs     PPs     PVs  LV STATE      MOUNT POINT
hd5                 boot       1       1       1    closed/syncd  N/A
hd6                 paging     128     128     1    open/syncd    N/A
hd8                 jfs2log    1       1       1    open/syncd    N/A
hd4                 jfs2       13      13      1    open/syncd    /
hd2                 jfs2       130     130     1    open/syncd    /usr
hd9var              jfs2       96      96      1    open/syncd    /var
hd3                 jfs2       16      16      1    open/syncd    /tmp
hd1                 jfs2       29      29      1    open/syncd    /home
hd10opt             jfs2       56      56      1    open/syncd    /opt
lg_dumplv           sysdump    64      64      1    open/syncd    N/A
livedump            jfs2       8       8       1    open/syncd    /var/adm/ras/livedump
hapowerlv           jfs2       32      32      1    open/syncd    /halogs

These filesystems (which hold every part the systems configuration) are the filesystems to be backed up into the image.

Regarding cloning a system: note that AIX 5.3 is not supported on any modern hardware: not on POWER7 and definitely not on POWER8. You might want to consider updating to something less than 5 years out of any support.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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