03-22-2019
Hi Bakunin,
Can you tell me more about the first 3 parts of savevg? Not clear for me to get the point from you.
Regarding the second thing, there is a need if the file was deleted somehow unexpectedly, and we would like it to be recovered to the same location.
So how about restoring whole AIX OS, it will overwrite all existing files (with corrupted and non-corrupted data) to bring the OS back to normal?
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