I'll try to make this brief.  Last night we were doing upgrades on some of our 
systems, most notably and RS6000 SP Node running AIX 4.3.3.  During OS maintenance 
level update we lost connectivity from Control W/S with CDROM to the Client SP NOde - 
It went downhill from there!  WE shortly couldn't even getb into the Node even from 
TTY.

With great effort from  IBM support we got in and got the NOde back in config but no 
way to get back where we were.  Had to reload a new image on the node and then we 
loaded the TSM 4.1.0.0 client.  (The node originally had 3.1.0.6 client with API 
interfacing to ORacle's EBU for Oracle 7.3.4 database _ Peoplesoft App.)  DB's are on 
Extrenal IBM ESS so shouild be o.k.

We have restored /usr, now restoring /var and will go to /home and then /.  Looks good 
so far.   We have never restored a complete AIX system from ADSM and certainlyu not an 
SP NODE.  I just got back in from 3 hours sleep while another guy got us this far.

I plan to call Tivoli, but wanted to check with anybody that has done this or similar 
with AIX.  And anybody that also has SP experience would be helpful.

Are we going down wrong path?  What are gotcha's?  What about SP issues?

Default assumption is after we resotre these rootvg filesystems, we can reboot and 
everybody will live happily everafter?!?!?!

We will not reboot until I can get some good feeling that it will come up as we may 
not be able to get back in.  I know this may not make good sense as I'm not 10% today 
but that's why we are checking with others.  I will also try to get "DR restore 
manual" from onluine at Tivle/IBM also.

(We are alsio restoring a 30+ GB Novell volume - gues how long that will ytake!!)

THanks in advance for any helpful comments.  
I will post our "Final Answer" when it's all back up!


David B. Longo
System Administrator
Health First, Inc.
3300 Fiske Blvd.
Rockledge, FL 32955-4305
PH      321.434.5536
Pager  321.634.8230
Fax:    321.434.5525
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