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Operating Systems AIX AIX 7.2 MKSYSB Backup and Restore Best Practices? Post 303034058 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 17th of April 2019 11:55:12 AM
Old 04-17-2019
Excellent. Good to know you are sorted.

Just to clarify, I do mean DVD-RAM . A ROM would be Read Only (hence the O)

It's different to DVD-RW & DVD+RW and there is a bit of discussion on a Wikipedia page : DVD-RAM - Wikipedia
To get it all to work, we had to make a mksysb image on a local disk and then use mkdvd appropriately. Oddly it eventually calls readcd with the write flag set, but you probably won't need to worry about that. It did need a chunk of free space in the rootvg too, just over twice the size of the mksysb image. I also had to adjust the LV creating algorithm in mkdvd (I think) because it estimated too small and we were continually running out of space in the temporary LVs it creates.


Is there anything else we can try to help with?


Robin
 

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dvdfs(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							  dvdfs(4)

NAME
dvdfs - The Digital Versatile Disk File System [This feature is not supported in Tru64 UNIX Version 5.0] STANDARDS
Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows: ISO/ITEC 13346:1995 Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) Universal Disk Format (UDF) Specification, "OSTA UDF Compliant Domain", Version 2.00. ISO 9660:1988 Information Processing-Volume and file structure of CD-ROM for information interchange. Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags. DESCRIPTION
The Digital Versatile Disk File System enables the reading of disks formatted in the Universal Disk Format (UDF). User data sectors in a DVD-ROM can contain any type of data in any format. However, for Tru64 UNIX support through the dvdfs file system, the OSTA UDF file format standard is mandatory. The file system limit for DVDFS is int cfs_cdfs_mount_limit = 512. Additionally, DVD-ROM standards require that the logical sector size and the logical block (the user data block) size be 2048 bytes. DVD support in the UDF specification includes these levels: DVD-ROM (Read-only): Supports reading of UDF-formated files from DVD-ROM disks. DVD-R (Write-once): Supports the reading of UDF-formated files from a DVD-ROM disk and supports writing, one time, UDF-formated files onto a DVD-ROM disk. DVD-RAM (Rewritable): Supports reading and writing of UDF-formated files from and to a DVD-ROM disk. At this time, the Tru64 UNIX dvdfs file system supports only the DVD-ROM (Read-only) format. See mount(8) for information about mounting and unmounting a dvdfs file system, fstab(4) for information about including dvdfs file system in a system's /etc/fstab file, and disklabel(8) for information about labeling DVD-ROM disks. RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: disklabel(8), mount(8) Files: cdfs(4) fstab(4) delim off dvdfs(4)
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