BCV/EMC backups on AIX

From: pSeries AIX Geek (aixgeek_at_YAHOO.COM)
Date: 11/03/03

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    Date:         Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:33:09 -0800
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    We have some AIX machines attached to EMC on which the
    storage admins want to do a BCV-style backup. After
    this the new disks will be mounted and the cold
    database backup performed from these disks.

    I guess this is functionally equivalent to a split
    mirror backup, except that the ENTIRE disk is copied
    (VGDA and PVID also). This makes it such that we have
    to them remount the disks onto another system (so as
    to avoid conflicts) and perform the backup from there.

    Am I on the right track?

    Any way I can avoid having to move the other disks to
    another system? Will the recreatevg command help me
    here to recreate the volume group if I were to
    manually change the PVID of the BCV'd disks?

    Thanks.

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