I don't know about mksysb, but you can certainly make bootable TSM for Sysback
backups to TSM and use them for AIX bare metal restores via NIM.
David
>>> Mehdi Salehi 2/28/2009 10:41 AM >>>
Hi experts,
I have some questions about Tivoli Storage Manager, Sysback and Fast
posesses all kinds of
backups including files and directories, raw devices, database backups and
certainly OS backups. These backups are located in storage pools and
cartridges where just TSM knows and can be restoreable automatically on
demand. So many expectations? (LOL)
Hypotheses:
1- mksysb backup
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Mark Fergusson
Sent: 16 January 2005 07:35 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Errror During Mksysb
Lindy a few more thoughts on this:
Can you write to the tape drive with tar? If so the problem may be with the
mksysb utility itself. I have seen the mksy
Lindy a few more thoughts on this:
Can you write to the tape drive with tar? If so the problem may be with the
mksysb utility itself. I have seen the mksysb utility fail before because
someone had deleted the symbolic link to the kernel. This in turn caused the
failure of the mkszfile utility and
ng as luck. Success comes from actually doing it."
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Richard Sims
Sent: 14 January 2005 02:23 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Errror During Mksysb
On Jan 14, 2005, at 7:13 AM, Crawford, L. (Li
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Errror During Mksysb
Lindy
Have you done all the normal AIX checking using the following commands:
lsdev -Cctape (Check if the tape drive is available and not defined) errpt
-a |grep rmt (check to see if the tape drive has had any errors) fuser
/dev/rmt2 (to see wh
On Jan 14, 2005, at 7:13 AM, Crawford, L. (Lindy) wrote:
I have tried to do a mksysb backup of my aix5.2 tsm server 5.2 to tape
and I
keep getting the following error:-
0512-017 mksysb: Cannot write to the device /dev/rmt2.
Either write protected or in use.
I have tried to delete
)
Tried another tape cartridge?
Checked the current tape WriteProtect tab?
Rgds
Mark
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Crawford, L. (Lindy)
Sent: 14 January 2005 12:14
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Errror During Mksysb
Good Day
Good Day,
I have tried to do a mksysb backup of my aix5.2 tsm server 5.2 to tape and I
keep getting the following error:-
0512-017 mksysb: Cannot write to the device /dev/rmt2.
Either write protected or in use.
I have tried to delete tape devices and only configure the dat
Dwight,
You can't stack mksysb's on a tape, but you can stack Sysbacks.
The first tape file on a bootable tape is in 512 byte blocks and is the
actual boot program. This is basically the kernel and a backup file
used to populate the ramfs as defined by the proto files.
On a mksysb,
ves in a 3494 tape library. The drives would be connected
using
FCP (Fibre Channel Protocol). The host would be a pSeries system. We
are
currently leaning toward a p650.
Given this configuration, would it be possible to restore AIX using
3590 mksysb tapes? If so, would it done by booting from 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 t
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 curren
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Thomas Denier
Sent: Tue 3/23/2004 6:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: mksysb tapes on fibre-attached 3590
We are considering migrating our TSM system to an AIX s
to restore AIX using
3590 mksysb tapes? If so, would it done by booting from tape or by
booting from CD and telling the software to read a mksysb tape? How
would we deal with the library? In particular, would we have to use
the stand-alone tape feature of the library?
We have fibre attached 3590's attached to RS/6000 Model F80. We can cut mksysb on
these drives but can not boot from this mksysb tape using fibre attached 3590.
we are working with IBM H/W to make it work (as this is supported config.), but still
no success.
Is there anybody tested bo
ginal Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of Dwight Cook
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 07:44
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> Subject: fiber attached 3590's for mksysb under AIX ?
>
>
> Kind of off topic but it is protection of TSM se
Kind of off topic but it is protection of TSM servers...
We are still running with all SCSI attached 3590's both B1A's and E1A's
nice thing is you can use mtlib to mount a tape, then cut a "mksysb" to
that drive & tape
Two TSM environments require capacity increa
I'd like to play the devil's advocate for just a second and ask why NIM and NFS don't
work? We have an SP and I use a NFS mounted directory from my CWS (NIM sever) to
perform MKSYSBs of the nodes and it works just great. If your using NIM then the
MKSYSB files have to be on
VEY,GL-CSC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday 14 February 2003 16:53
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mksysb directly into TSM 5.1
Clark, which version of sysback? it seems to me that last announced one is
not able to interface to TSM...
yours,
René LAMBELET
information that is privileged and confidential.
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From: Rodney clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday,14. February 2003 16:27
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mksysb directly into TSM 5.1
It looks like the new version of sysback will be able to do this.
At
February 2003 15:04
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mksysb directly into TSM 5.1
Hello,
any idea to send mksysb directly to tsm 5.1 (AIX)? I've heard adsmpipe is
not officialy supported, does anybody use named pipe to write their mksysb ?
If yes, how do you read back form the file ?
For now we
Hello,
any idea to send mksysb directly to tsm 5.1 (AIX)? I've heard adsmpipe is
not officialy supported, does anybody use named pipe to write their mksysb ?
If yes, how do you read back form the file ?
For now we use a NIM server and NFS, this is not optimum.
Thanks
Anyone know if its possible to concatonate onto the back of a mksysb the
data of a backup ?? Is tsm aware that this is a mksysb and will jump to the
end of the mksysb data and add onto it?? This would save me tapes and the
fact that LTO can handle so much data it would be helpful
R.
Nice catch, Bill -- that is another essential action, or maybe, mark it
private *before* using the tape...
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From: "Bill Mansfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 1:08 AM
Subject: Re: mksysb or sysback to
The only thing I would add to Don's excellent description is
(1a) checkout the tape with option REMOVE=NO
This will keep TSM from deciding to try to use the tape in the midde of
the mksysb.
_
William Mansfield
Senior Consultant
Solution Technology, Inc
630 718
Try using tapeutil (or some 3575 library tool, like mtlib on 3494) to mount
a tape in a given drive -- you must choose a scratch tape and ensure TSM is
not using the drive; then, issue (1) make drive "offline" to TSM, (2) the
cmd to mount the tape, (3) the cmd to mksysb to that devic
Hello,
Possibly I am imaging this whole thing. However, I believe it is
possible to backup the AIX operating system directly to a tape in the
Library, not through TSM necessarily.
What AIX device would I choose to backup to?
rmt0 IBM Magstar MP 3570 Library Tape Drive
s
non-AIX systems is proliferating so we are migrating to a TSM
backup/recovery mechanism. The TSM server is an AIX based NSM box.
I am in the process of learning the ins and outs of DR with a TSM and the
first step is to restore the TSM server itself. The first method tried was
the IBM standard m
the process of learning the ins and outs of DR with a TSM and the
first step is to restore the TSM server itself. The first method tried was
the IBM standard mksysb. Because the box I am restoring onto is a different
model, size and slightly newer architecture with newer cards and I/O
subsystems
Having a mksysb backup in TSM is pretty useless unless you are in a NIM
environment. The mksysb made directly to tape has 4 sections, the one made
to a file only has one section. In theory you can construct a bootable
tape from that section, but I've never been able to get it to work
The only diffrence between mksysb and the backup command is this.
mksysb Tape has 4 Sectors
BOS Boot Image
Blocksize=512
Witch holds: Kernel, Device Drivers
mkinsttape image
Bloksize=512
Witch holds: ./image.data, /tapeblksz, /bosinst.data, commands
dummy.toc
Blockzise=512
Witch holds
Hi Lindy,
What you would like to do is not that very difficult. Like Jason
Barkes said;
make a mksysb to a local filesystem and backup/archive is to TSM. We
do it like that, but we use NIM to restore a MKSYSB over the network.
An other option is mkcd, which is
hi Lindy
Theoraticly you should be able to do it. use mksysb to backup to optical
device. Then use DD to copy the file to a diks and use TSM to back it up.
But still i don´t understand why you should wana back up mksysb, when you
can´t boot form a TSM tape on AIX, then it would make your mksysb
Lindy,
If you need to back up your mksysb's into TSM, I suggest that you
run a mksysb to a local filesystem and then backup the file to TSM.
Regards, Jason Barkes.
Mustard Design Consultants - www.mustard-design.co.uk
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As an aside, they're also really handy for altinst_rootvg work during
testing. I was able to boot under the original system, restore the disk
file mksysb to the altinst_rootvg, reboot, test, reboot, restore the
original system to altinst_rootvg, test something else, etc, much more
quickly t
Hmm interesting. Mksysb used to copy the rootvg file systems to the 4th
tape file.
I hadn't tried disk. Ran a test and it turns out mksysb is using backup to
just copy
files to your disk mksysb file. Ergo to get a single file, use restore.
Check the man pages. This was on an AIX 4.3.3. s
Just try as u do for tape .Thats what I would do!!
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From: Pothula S Paparao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 3:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: append a file to mksysb image
Importance: High
Hi ,
I know that this is AIX related question
Hi ,
I know that this is AIX related question , i have ray of hope that some
body could help me in this regard. my query is.
Its possible to restore a single file (/etc/hosts) from mksysb image that
is stored in my hard disk (not in tape). like wise, is it possible to
append the same file to the
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Subject: Re: mksysb
Shekhar - first check for filesystem full in /tmp /usr etc.
If no problems there, check your /etc/vfs (perhaps compare with another
RS/6000 which completes the mk
Shekhar - first check for filesystem full in /tmp /usr etc.
If no problems there, check your /etc/vfs (perhaps compare with another
RS/6000 which completes the mksysb with no problems). If the files are
different you may want to try correcting it yourself by copying or editing
from the other
trying to make mksysb tapes for DRM test but gives error any idea?
# mksysb -iXm /dev/rmt0
Creating information file (/image.data) for rootvg..
Creating tape boot image.mkfs: mkfs: 0506-209 The vfs type specified is not reco
gnized.
0301-155 bosboot: mkfs failed for /tmp/Bootram.fs.
0512-016
=> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:41:05 -0400, Paul Zarnowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> Since there has been so much discussion on this, I'll add my 2 cents. Here
> at Cornell, we have a NIM server which we use for doing AIX installs. We
> run a weekly script which causes mk
Actually i got lot of stuff from all ADSM`R and wraped up the mksysb
subject.
, but now i got your mail.
good implimentation of scripts , TSM and NIm combination in your environment,.
ofcourse you need it , because installation of 30 systems is like installation
of RS/6000 SP systems with 4
Since there has been so much discussion on this, I'll add my 2 cents. Here
at Cornell, we have a NIM server which we use for doing AIX installs. We
run a weekly script which causes mksysb backups to be made for all of our
AIX systems (about 30, I think). This is all implemented using ADSM
Thanks a lot.
First let me say, I don't want to spread out the discussion to non *SM
topics. For those not concerned with server restores on AIX, the
following may be from interest anyway.
> My understanding is that you can only network install a mksysb via
> nim.
That is correct.
> I went ar
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Shekhar Dhotre wrote:
> Storing mksyb on s solaris is ok, but whats the use?
> i mean how we can use it to reintsall the crasghed AIX srver. it should be on
> tape , i dont know i am wrong or right?
If my AIX TSM server dies, I can restore it's latest mks
On 28 Jul 2000, at 11:01, Shekhar Dhotre wrote:
> Storing mksyb on s solaris is ok, but whats the use?
> i mean how we can use it to reintsall the crasghed AIX srver. it should be on
> tape , i dont know i am wrong or right?
My understanding is that you can only network install a m
xtra charge and you can use every AIX box as Network
Install Manager. The way would be:
a) restore your mksysb image on your NIM master ("master" only means
"server", it's the naming of the product)
b) customize the NIM for installing a mksysb (be aware - it's not easy,
Storing mksyb on s solaris is ok, but whats the use?
i mean how we can use it to reintsall the crasghed AIX srver. it should be on
tape , i dont know i am wrong or right?
second thing Does Ufsdump for sun is like mksysb , is it bootable?
and how to configure new tape drive to sun box , like
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Gottfried Scheckenbach wrote:
> From my point of view without purchasing a third party product you could
> in case of a AIX *SM client system
> a) perform a mksysb to filesystem
> b) backup the image with *SM backup/archive client
> c) setup a NIM master, pre
>From my point of view without purchasing a third party product you could
in case of a AIX *SM client system
a) perform a mksysb to filesystem
b) backup the image with *SM backup/archive client
c) setup a NIM master, preferably on your *SM server
d) restore image from *SM to local filespac
Oh,
So you have to buy sysback from IBM, i am searching In AIX from yesterday,
trying man sysback, find sysback etcc..
can u download it for testing ?
Thanks,
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You can't.
This sort of functionality (i.e. mksysb across a network) is available
using IBM's sysback product.
You can use this to backup to another machine's disk or tape and also to
restore the rootvg across the network.
I have an idea that NIM has similar functionality,
> Just out of curiosity, why do you want to stop the ADSM server while
> doing a mksysb?
> Is it bad to conduct a mksysb while the ADSM server is running?
>
>
Sorry , i mean to say how we can make mksysb in copypool or tapepool.
TSM software will always be in rootvg as it is installed in /usr/tivoili/tsm
directory.
i am thinking from client side , My client includes AIX machines also.
>How to backup mksysb to TSM server?
That doesn't make sense if the TSM software is in the
root volume group...
Richard Sims, BU
hi all,
How to backup mksysb to TSM server?
. is any way is there can we install crashed server from 'mksysb' which is in
tapepool or copypool , like we do installation of RS/6000 Sp systems
through NIM master server(can we configure TSM as a NIM master server?). it
will be goo
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