Nice try Ray.
I'm aware of your product, and I've passed details to a local var, so that he can
include it in an upcoming tender.
This being govrnment that won't be complete for at least 6 months.
Regards
Steve.
>>> Ray Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 13/04/2001 6:06:50 >>>
Steve,
I work for The Kernel Group, and we have a product that will allow you to to a Bare
Metal Restore of AIX, Solaris, HP, and NT using the data in ADSM/TSM. The recovery is
highly automated.
We have solved the issues you found and more. You can check out our web site:
http://www.tkg.com/bmr/tsm
Steve Harris wrote:
> I've got a similar query to those restoring Solaris and Linux but re AIX.
>
> It annoys me that while I have a full TSM backup of the AIX rootVG I can't use it.
>The bare metal redbook is no use, it just says to use mksysb
>
> I've come up with a process which almost works assuming two bootable disks are
>available
> 1. Restore a standard mksysb image, which includes the TSM client to one disk
> 2. Run the alt_disk_install command phases 1 & 2 to set up an alternate rootvg and
>restore the most recent mksysb for the box (this is just to get filesystem sizes).
> 3. Use standard TSM commands to restore the / /usr /var /home filesystems on the
>alternate disk to the latest TSM backup
> 4. run alt_disk_install phase 3 to setup the restored system for boot
> 5. boot from alternate.
> 6. clean up bootstrap disk
> 7. remirror rootvg
>
> Unfortunately step 4 fails as the alt_disk_install command plays with the alternate
>ODM in phases 1 & 2, but I revert to the original ODM in 3.
> I need to restore the original ODM because minor details like software installations
>are kept there.
>
> I really think that this process can be made to work if I could just save the
>appropriate bits of the ODM at 2.1 and put them back at 3.1. The question is what
>are the appropriate bits?
>
> Any AIX experts with good ODM knowledge out there?
>
> Regards
>
> Steve Harris
> AIX and ADSM Admin
> Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia
