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Using the script you provided works, thank you :)

Yes I tried using this..

ls -l /usr1/tmp/backup.bk* | sort -tk -k 3.1b,3n

But it does not give the desired results, I am reading through the sort manual but it is very confusing.

Trying to sort a bunch of files numerically but can't seem to get the command just right. This is in a IBM AIX machine.

I have a directory that has...

backup.bk1
backup.bk100
backup.bk2...

I found my answer here (http://wiki-ux.info/wiki/How_to_use_pax), using: -s '%^/%<relative_path>/%' works, for anyone else that may run into this.

RTFM? Really?

Did you even read the post? It clearly states I already tried using -s (ReplacementString) without success, how do you think I got to this parameter?

No, I cannot use cd/tar...

Hello,

I have a tape backup (it was made using dd/tar) and I want to use dd/pax to restore tape to disk, in IBM AIX 7.2.

I can restore from tape using example below without issues.

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I don't have a cd-rom, but i do have a a few USB 3.0 inputs and after a call to IBM the route I went with was to create a USB MKSYSB (mksysb -iev /dev/usbms0), was able to restore the rootvg using...

Opened a ticket with IBM, according to the ATAPE readme (https://delivery04.dhe.ibm.com/sar/CMA/STA/05g4d/0/Atape.README) it states that:


Booting from a SAS attached tape drive is not supported...

I cannot seem to boot off tape in SMS.

I created a MKSYSB backup to tape using: mksysb -iev /dev/rmt0
Verified it using: lsmksysb -l -f /dev/rmt0

Booted to SMS menu, selected Tape as the boot...

Thanks for the very detailed response Robin, this relieves some of my "unknown pain points" around the process. The P9 is in pre-production so I wanted to take the time to blow away rootvg and...

Hello,

Running AIX 7.2 on Power9 bare-metal (no LPAR and no NIM server), in the process of creating a guide on MKSYSB process.

I understand that MKSYSB is a backup of the rootvg and we can...

To change max_xfer_size does one require to reboot AIX? I was reading this blog (https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/cgaix/entry/new_fc_adapter_port_queue_depth_tuning?lang=en)which...

Sorry for the delayed response, I have ran the xdisk bench and the output is below.


root@xxxxx:./bench.sh
BS Proc AIO read% IO Flag IO/s MB/s rMin-ms rMax-ms rAvg-ms WrAvg wMin-ms...

I have a IBM Power9 server coupled with a NVMe StorWize V7000 GEN3 storage, doing some benchmarks and noticing that single thread I/O (80% Read / 20% Write, common OLTP I/O profile) seems slow.

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On a fresh bare metal (no LPARs) install of AIX 7.2 running cfgmgr is returning..


# cfgmgr
Method error (/usr/lib/methods/cfgstorfworkcom -l sfwcomm2 ):
0514-040 Error initializing a...

I was thinking the service processor route next, it has been awhile since I have used it - thanks for the notes and link to docs...

We do not have any hardware support on the system, it is...

We have a IBM P730 machine running AIX 7.1 in a properly air cooled server room. Just recently the fans on the unit kicked into overdrive, they are very loud and spinning at max.

Typically this...

Interesting, so if we ran Microlite's BackupEdge to create a master backup that we later had to restore in case of a hard drive failure, likely it would give us the same issue as I don't think it is...

I was hoping to move the bare metal into a VM; that way I can do VM level backups and in case of restore it is much easier in VMware.

But I doubt we'll be able to get passed this licensing...

Yea that was my thinking as well but I dropped them an email anyway to see if i get anywhere.

The bare metal system shows..

Alias - Address - Inquiry String
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I was able to transplant the OS with Microlite - though it took a few hours to get it to work. Had to create a rescue boot CD using Microlite from a fresh SCO6 install in VMware and use that to boot...

Do you know if Storix works for SCO Open Server 6 P2V? Their website has AIX/Solaris listed but not SCO specifically. They do offer a trial so i guess I can try it and see if it works.

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Hello,

We have a SCO Open Server 6 running on bare metal hardware, this is used for a legacy application that we continue to need.

I would like to migrate/virtualize the SCO server into VMware...

Hello,

I have an AIX 7.1 Power8 machine on which I have a working copy of Samba 3.6 installed using perzl.org repo.

The issue I am running into is, Samba 3.6 supports the more secure SMB2...

I spoke to MicroLite support and AIX is not a supported OS any longer.

We use LoneTar currently (old version but it works); but it has no encryption capabilities. I have found stenc...