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Operating Systems AIX Can I use mkdvd to create bootable DVD from mksysb on tape Post 303005919 by alanp36 on Tuesday 24th of October 2017 04:05:01 PM
Old 10-24-2017
Thanks Robin,

The rootvg on this system is around 40GB. Customer keeps a lot of data filesystems in rootvg (we didn't set this up), and doesn't want to change anything. They don't want to add any disk, as the server is migrating off onto our hardware.

In fact I think it's going to be possible for us to make a tape drive available to the destination server, so may not have to worry about the DVDs.

Didn't really want to exclude filesystems from the backup and have to get them across later, hence the question about making the DVDs from the bootable tape backup. Would have been handy if AIX provided that as an option, if not the prettiest solution. From what you say, it sounds like it's not likely to work though, and given that Dr Google doesn't come up with any hits regarding this approach, I'm guessing it's not possible.

Thanks for taking the time to reply though, it's nice to at least know it isn't an option.

Cheers,
 

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amrmtape

AMRMTAPE(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       AMRMTAPE(8)

NAME

       amrmtape - remove a tape from the Amanda database

SYNOPSIS

       amrmtape [ -n ] [ -v ] [ -q ] [ -d ] config label

DESCRIPTION

       Amrmtape  invalidates  the contents of an existing backup tape in the configuration database.  This is meant as a recovery mechanism when a
       good backup is damaged either by faulty hardware or user error, e.g. the tape is eaten by the drive or is overwritten.

       See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda.

OPTIONS

       -n     Generate new tapelist and database files with label removed, but leave them in /tmp and do not update the original copies.

       -v     List backups of hosts and disks that are being discarded.  Enabled by default.

       -q     Opposite of -v.

       -d     Run in debugging mode so all executed commands are shown.

EXAMPLE

       Remove tape labeled DAILY034 from the DailySet1 configuration.

	      # amrmtape DailySet1 DAILY034

AUTHOR

       Adrian T. Filipi-Martin <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu>

SEE ALSO

       amadmin(8), amanda(8)

																       AMRMTAPE(8)
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