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- From: jessica.bvl.pt!root (Operator)
- Subject: Re: How to restore from dump tapes on AIX
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.123733.3621@bvl.pt>
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- Organization: Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa
- References: <1992Dec11.232836.915@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 12:37:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.232836.915@athena.mit.edu> herrera@athena.mit.edu
- (Ramon F Herrera) writes:
-
- > My question is: Given that I have my backup tapes,
- > how can I find out what were the partitions of
- > the hard disk (the precise sizes) before the crash?
- >
- > Does AIX have something functionally equivalent to
- > Sun 'format' or 'dkinfo'?
-
- What's the format of the backups ?
- Backup by name or by i-node ?
-
- Anyhow, in any of this cases, you will have to re-create the filesystems
- by hand, and then restore the files.
- Take a look in what IBM call 'image', with this technic you may create an
- image of your system, all mounted file systems will be dumped to tape
- and you can latter restore them in just one go (note that the hardware
- information, tty, printers and so on, is not saved).
- With this image tape, you can boot from the flopies and install this
- image tape. It's possible to create a boot tape, but I don't remember
- how... I'm far from AIX for about half an year now.
-
- regards,
- vasco.
-