filosophizer,
It appears to me that you are calling mkdvd, and not the mksysb function directly. From the limited output of your session it looks like a smitty mkdvd instead of a smitty mksysb.
By calling mkdvd, the system will split the backup data into ISO's that can be set bootable and burnt, but you may end up with more than one volume.
By calling mksysb, the system will write one giant file, not set it bootable. You should be able to use mkdvd/mkcd and pass said file to it to make bootable images if required. Be warned, it will split the mksysb into as many volumes as it needs to.
So, single ISO image will require you to prune down your rootvg so all the data fits into one DVD. I try to keep my rootvg's just that, but in cases where others have invaded my space, booting at 15G mksysb from a nim server isn't a problem
Ok, now errors. If you are running this in console it should tell you:
From my system:
Also if running from smit, the smit.log should contain the info. By default, the smit.log should be found in the root filesystem.
If you are calling the mksysb/mkdvd from a script, you will need to capture errors and log them.
Hope this helps!
Last edited by RecoveryOne; 07-31-2019 at 04:47 PM..
Hi,
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Hello,
Just wondering if I don't have tape drive or NIM server then what are the possible ways to make mksysb ?
My DVD-RAM has only 4GB capacity where as my rootvg is more than 6GB
anythoughts ?
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