AIX

When i am taking mksysb that time it is giving error 0653-421 error.

Verbose mode (-v) could have been helpful. Nevertheless, Google shows:

http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Li...4-07/0187.html

and

IBM - IY61096: MKSYSB:0511-449 TOO MANY LEVELS OF SYMBOLIC LINKS

After looking that stuff up I suggest finally you post the whole error output, maybe by including the verbose option.

This is the exact problem

Before command completion, additional instructions may appear below.

Creating information file (/image.data) for rootvg.
Creating tape boot image.
bosboot: Boot image is 36515 512 byte blocks.
ln: 0653-421 ./usr/lpp/bosinst/datadaemon exists.
Specify -f to remove ./usr/lpp/bosinst/datadaemon before linking.
.cannot access ./usr/lpp/bosinst/datadaemon/: There are too many levels of symbo
lic links to translate a path name.
0512-021 mksysb: Attempt to create a bootable tape failed:
mkinsttape /dev/rmt0.1 failed with return code 9.

when ever i delete the file datadeamon file, after mksysb command fired then it is creating like

bash-3.00# pwd
/usr/lpp/bosinst


bash-3.00# ls -l datadaemon
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 27 Sep 24 18:18 datadaemon -> /usr/lpp/bosinst/datadaemon


I compared to another server. That server this file not having the link. How will we remove the link. It is again and again create the link.

Please suuggest me.

What does

Code:

oslevel -s
# or
oslevel -r

show?

now the mksysb is going .

I removed the file, and create the touch file. Now it is going.

bash-3.00# rm /usr/lpp/bosinst/datadaemon
bash-3.00# touch /usr/lpp/bosinst/datadaemon

our server oslevel is

$ oslevel -s
5300-06-01-0722

Glad you fixed it - couldn't find anything helpful what that binary "datadaemon" is used for anyway... I hope your mksysb image works when restoring or better I hope you never need it