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- From: op@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Olaf Pors)
- Subject: Restores of rootvg by inode
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.171212.10676@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Originator: op@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU
- Keywords: restore, inode
- Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
- Organization: University of Virginia
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:12:12 GMT
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- Responses to my previous post indicate that some folks
- are interested in creating a customized bootable tape to
- allow restores by inode of the root volume group. You can
- pick up boottape.1.tar.Z via anonymous ftp from
- uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU in pub/rs6000 which contains
- appropriate diffs, scripts, and documentation for AIX
- 3.2.2.
-
- I'm genuinely surprised that only a few people indicated
- concern about a very serious deficiency in AIX: it is
- currently impossible, without local modifications, to back
- up and restore your root volume group by inode. This
- means that unless you are willing to do a mksysb every
- day, you can't have reliable daily backups of the root
- volume group. At our site, with 27 RS6000s being backed
- up, and a set of 11 systems programmers independently
- making changes to the root volume group, reliable daily
- backups are quite important. Is UVa the only site with a
- concern for backups? Have other sites found another
- solution? I'd sure like to hear about it. Most of all,
- I'd like to think that IBM is concerned about this and
- doing something about it. How about it, readers from IBM
- - has this issue escaped the managers? Is anything in the
- works? If not, who do I talk to? So far, it appears to
- me that AIX is continuing on its "full backups only"
- course.
-
- Olaf Pors
- Academic Computing Center / ITC
- University of Virginia
- op@Virginia.EDU
- 804-924-0633
-