Thanks I'll give it a try. Gene
|--------+-------------------------> | | "Poland, Neil" | | | <Neil.Poland@AC| | | S-INC.COM> | | | | | | 04/08/02 12:12 | | | PM | | | Please respond | | | to "ADSM: Dist | | | Stor Manager" | | | | |--------+-------------------------> >---------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | cc: (bcc: Gene Greenberg/CentralOffice/RRISD) | | Subject: Re: AIX Sys Backup | >---------------------------------------------------------| I've done it on a 3575. If I remember right, the steps were: Set the drive offline to TSM Used tapeutil to mount a scratch volume Ran the mksysb using the /dev/rmtX Used tapeutil to eject the volume Updated the volume in TSM Set the drive back online -----Original Message----- From: Gene Greenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 10:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX Sys Backup Does anyone have any other ideas other than sysback for an aix mksysb or savevg to tsm library? It's frustrating trying to automate all backups and put them in a single basket. Thanks for help, Gene