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# 1  
Old 08-25-2008
NIM client mksysb restore
Can a NIM client mksysb restore be performed via NIM (smitty nim) without the NIM client machine having the NIM server's IP and hostname in its /etc/hosts file?
# 2  
Old 08-26-2008
No this can not be done
# 3  
Old 08-26-2008
Have you actually tested this before? Supposedly it can be done but I have a mksysb that won't restore and it does not have the NIM server in it's /etc/hosts. It gets NFS mount errors during the restore just after it prepares the disks and created the VGs, LVs, and filesystems.
# 4  
Old 08-26-2008
yes


what you can to is send the image to DVD and the recover the mksysb from there


smitty mkdvd
Smilie
# 5  
Old 08-26-2008
Sweet. I didn't even know "smitty mkdvd" existed. I'm going to try this. Another guy on my team is doing a mksysb restore test with and without the NIM entry. I need to see if we have a DVD burner on our server and get this started.
# 6  
Old 08-26-2008
We do have a DVD burner... DVD RAM drive to be exact. It must be a standard component on the newer servers.
# 7  
Old 08-26-2008
So the mksysb wouldn't restore on our p670. Why? I have no idea. It did restore on to our p570. So we're going to add the NIM entry there, create a new mksysb, and then restore it back to the p670. Hopefully that will work. Heh... Smilie
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