On Monday 19 September 2005 19:47, Todd Lundstedt wrote: > This is more along the lines of AIX server recovery, but it plays into > TSM, too. > Without using addtional software, just AIX, how does one create a boot > CD that contains all the necessary info to restore a server using a > mksysb tape? > > I understand the process for recovering an AIX server from a mksysb tape > backup to different hardware would be to boot the server from a CD of > the same OS-ML as the mksysb backup. My TSM server is running on AIX > 5200-03. The install media I have is 5200-01. How do I create a boot > CD image (ISO, so I can burn the ISO image using a PC CD-W) that > contains the 5200-03 files so I can recover the TSM server? > > My current working documentation requires an install of 5200-01, patch > to -03, and install TSM and then restore the DB. That works OK, but > takes additional time, and still won't get back everything I need to > allow some other node restores to start. I will still have to rebuild > some things from scratch. We always backup the TSM server (AIX) on the local tape streamer. So we have a bootable mksysb tape that also contains the TSM db backup. For the other AIX servers we use nim to make backups. Nim allows you to make a mksysb to a nim master and stores the mksysb as a file on the nim master (this is also the TSM server). The AIX servers can boot from the nim master over the network and restore the mksysb.
Stef