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aixpank
Thanks for your reply bakunin, but you haven't answered my requirement.
I have answered parts of your requirement, namely, how to restore mountpoints which haven't been backep up. The answer is: you can only restore what you have backed up before, so there is no way to retrieve them from the backup at all.
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See I have a mksysb which is not containing my application mount point as it was taken with excluding those mount point due to size contraints.
And i was telling you that this is a moot point and in fact nonsense: if the application data you mount into these mountpoints are not in the rootvg (which has to be the case, otherwise you would have to install the application anew anyways, mountpoints or not, because you have excluded it from the backup) you will only enlarge the backup by what it takes to store a bunch of directory entries - hardly more than a few bytes. I don't think this is any relevant constraint.
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Now I want to recover the system with those mount points. System is not booting. This is the scenario, now pls suggest how can I restore my system along with those mount points.
Sounds likely to be impossible. This is a SysAdmin forum, not the Uri Geller Academy. I am a technician, not a psychic.
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how I will be able to recover them from those failed disk.
Why, do you think, the disk has failed in first place? Because it is working?
If - but that is a big "if" - you get the disk to cooperate somehow: restore what you have from the mksysb to the new disk, boot from it, do an "importvg" of the old disk and have a look where the mountpoints are, then recreate them by hand. Maybe this will fail because you will try to import a rootvg into a system which already has one. I don't know and i can't recreate this problem here, because i have no system where i could try to import a foreign rootvg.
If this fails do the following: boot the system from an external medium into maintenance mode, there is an option of "open a maintenance shell" (or similar). Activate the volume group on the defect disk, then open such a maintenance shell and have a look. Write your mountpoints down, restore the system to the new disk from your mksysb and create the noted mountpoints.
I hope this helps.
bakunin