Subject: Disaster Happened!
From: David Longo <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 14:08:39 -0500

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
[email-masked]

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