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> Subject: Re: mksysb tapes on fibre-attached 3590
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> I would say that would be a waste of a 300 GB tape but if your system
> is down hard and you need to recover...
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There is a TSM for Sysback offering which allows you to store sysback
backups on TSM and use network boot or NIM to boot and restore the
sysback backup.
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We are considering migrating our TSM system to an AIX system with 3590
tape drives in a 3494 tape
In the old way, with SCSI attached 3590's you only had to either manually
mount your mksysb tape in an attached drive OR use another host defined to
the atl to mount the mksysb tape to a drive attached to the host you were
wanting to restore. (I always have a ~utility server~ defined to all m
I don't know if you can boot fibre tape. If not, this would most likely
be a firmware limitation. If any system would allow it, the p650 would.
The boot media, whether it be mksysb-CD, NIM or SCSI tape, will need to
have Atape and the fibre drivers in it. Make sure you're at current
firmware fo
When I last checked (about a month ago), you cannot boot AIX from fibre attached tape
(disk is ok). You would definitely have to boot from other media (eg CD) to use these
tapes. You would then have to manually mount the tape by taking the library offline
and using the library front panel befo
