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Old 03-27-2010
VIOS Backup

Dear friends.. Will it be OK if I backup VIO Server Using smit mksysb?? will it save all virtual host mapings etc...??? thanks in advance
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Old 03-27-2010
No, you need to use the VIOS command backupios.
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Old 03-28-2010
Even then I would encourage you to save copies of lspv and lsmap -all in /home/padmin before you do the backupios, just to be safe. Recreating a mapping like this from scratch is painful.
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Old 03-29-2010
Thanks dear friends! I will try today to make backup

---------- Post updated at 07:36 AM ---------- Previous update was at 02:43 AM ----------

Well The backup completed successfuly.. So I need to restore the backup in order to make sure that it works.. should I now make Lpar for VIOS and make restore there?? thanks in advance
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