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Operating Systems AIX Can I use mkdvd to create bootable DVD from mksysb on tape Post 303005968 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 25th of October 2017 10:19:13 AM
Old 10-25-2017
Okay, a few options.
  • Have a think about using /etc/exclude.rootvg to exclude things in the rootvg not critical to the OS. The way mksysb works, it builds a list of files and funnels them into backbyname (I hope that's right) but using the -e flag on mksysb allows you to pattern-match exclude files which match, so if you have /data, you can write a line in /etc/exclude.rootvg for ./data and it's content will not be written into the image. Hopefully this will fit on disk much easier.
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  • Can you NFS mount some space on another server that also has a DVD-RAM device? If so, you could use that to write a DVD based on a mksysb image written across the NFS.


Could you answer the questions above so we know what we're starting with? We've all inherited odd systems so hopefully there is nothing too shocking, even if it's only one volume group.


Thanks, in advance,
Robin
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

dares

DARES(1)																  DARES(1)

NAME

       dares - rescue files from damaged CDs and DVDs

SYNOPSIS

       dares -i image -s path [-h2i h2i_file] [-a] [-m] [-llogfile]
       dares-qt [-i image] [-s path] [-h2i h2i_file] [-a] [-m] [-llogfile]

DESCRIPTION

       Dares  scans  a	CD/DVD image or a CD/DVD and tries to find files. It does not depend on filesystem information, but instead uses the Magic
       library to identify files. Doing it this way Dares can recover files even when the filesystem (ISO-9660 or UDF) on the disc is damaged  and
       cannot be mounted anymore.

       Dares can use H2cdimage (ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/ctsi/h2cdimage.zip) files to rescue data from heavily damaged optical discs.

OPTIONS

       -i     CD/DVD image file or device.

       -s     Directory where the rescued  files shall be stored.

       -h2i   Optional h2i file for the CD/DVD image.

       -a     Store all found files without any user interaction.

       -m     Use Mime types instead of a description.	-l Logfile (default: dares.log)

AUTHOR

       dares was written by Oliver Diedrich <odi@ct.heise.de>.

       This manual page was written by Michael Hanke <michael.hanke@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

Michael Hanke							   Oktober 2005 							  DARES(1)
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