AIX

Hi friends..

My one problem is not resolved yet I have another.

I am planning to take an OS backup of my p550 using "mksysb". Now i am confussed. suppose I give the command to take the backup into a tape drive and my backup size exceeds the tape capacity.. what will happen? will it ask for the second tape or will the entire process stop?

Bala

It will ask for the second tape

a very use full tool

make sure there is no error when it is done

make sure you have done a
bosboot -ad hdisk0 and also the mirror disk

mksysb only backup anything in rootvg
you can check this by doing lsvg -l rootvg
you can reduce the size by excluding any filesystems that you do not need to backup by adding a file in /etc/exclude.rootvg
by default there are some basic stuff in there
you can then just use the exclude=yes in smitty mksysb

if you have a dvd ram disk you can use smitty mkdvd as well


Hope this helps