system backups

by Monty McGe » Wed, 21 Jan 1998 04:00:00

We use AIX 4.2 here. Each night, a mksysb command is automatically
executed, and I have to give a 'bresults' command at the login prompt
the next day to supposedly view the results.
What is mksysb doing, and what does bresults tell us? We get a
'abnormal program termination' message after 'backup completed
successfully' at the bresults response.
If anyone knows what is going on here, and what all this is about,

Thanks,

Monty McGee

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