hi,
Just some extra input for mksysb. On our site,we direct mksysb backup of
each server to a filesystem/file (instead of tape), eg.
/mksysb/server1_mksysb.110200, get TSM/ADSM to backup the file during daily
backup. We have NIM(Network Installation Management) server set up, so if we
need to rebuild server1, we restore server1_mksysb.110200 to NIM server,
perform network boot on server1 (of cause, you need to define 'machine'
server1 in NIM server), push the mksysb images from NIM to server1.... the
rest of the steps is just like restoring from tape, only different is by
this way, we don't have to worry having each servers connected to a tape
drive, backing mksysb to tape drive, tape rotation, etc... also mainly, it's
much faster over the high speed network than a DLT tape drive.
Cheers,
Estee Chen
Guardian Life, New York.
>From: Shekhar Dhotre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Re: Restore Sun Solaris from scratch
>Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 11:13:40 -0500
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>How do you handle rotation of mksysb tapes.. How many mksysb tapes do you
>have ?
>
>
>
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>Subject: Re: Restore Sun Solaris from scratch
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>We use the internal 8mm drive; since we need a librarian for the DRM pool,
>they just make daily rounds, so the OS mksysb tape goes offsite along with
>the daily DRM pulls.
>
>On the subject of Solaris, all OS CD's are bootable, so it's not such a
>stretch to use that to get started with a TSM restore... just not as
>elegant
>as the TKG solution.
>
>BTW, we've heard TKG also has a Win2k solution in the works; these folks
>may quickly become the place to go for full-server rebuild product.
>
>Regards,
>Don
>
>Don France
>
>Technical Architect - Unix Engineering/P.A.C.E.
>San Jose, CA
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> -----Original Message-----
>From: Shekhar Dhotre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 9:16 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Restore Sun Solaris from scratch
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> >we protect our AIX rootvg using mksysb tapes on a daily rotation;
>
> AIX mksysb dailly rotation ? how you are doing this? using DLT`(from
>tivoli)
> or 4mm or 8mm tape drive attched to RS/6000 box?
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