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I need to do a system restore from a mksyb onto an old 43P after a disk was
replaced. Version of AIX is 4.2.1.

Can anyone give me an idiots guide to how to do this.

John

I did try and send a copy of the document to you by email. If anyone else
needs it  I think ibm fax line number is 1-800-4-FAX and the 4fax document
number is 8166.

Have Fun!!.
Manish.

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p.s All opinions are expressed are only mine.

Been a long time since I had to do this (does the 43P have a service switch?)..
seems like it was:
Move switch to maintenance
Boot the machine
wait till it gets to 200 (machine will sit and wait for you here ..)
insert the tape (wait for it to seat and reset itself)
push reset 3 times

Somewhere in there you get to indicate what disk you want to load the OS on to.
Be sure its the correct disk, cause the reload will write over anything!! Keep
records on things like this!!

When done, reboot in normal mode.  Any logical volumes may have to be restored
- you're only reloading the boot disk. The LVM disks are ok, but the boot disk
may not know about them anymore.

Its really important to keep a system configuration up to date - what disks are
what LVMs, where the boot disk is, etc. REALLY important!!

Please - someone with more recent AIX experience hop in and fill in the blanks
and correct the mistakes I probably made. Been a long time since I had to do
one of these processes (no mksysb in an HP environment, we just reload the OS
and reconfigure, takes a day.)
Dave

Quote:>Please - someone with more recent AIX experience hop in and fill in the blanks
>and correct the mistakes I probably made. Been a long time since I had to do
>one of these processes (no mksysb in an HP environment, we just reload the OS
>and reconfigure, takes a day.)
>Dave

Check Ignite it does a similar task. If you are on HP/UX 10.20 I think
you can download it for free.

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