Backup using shadow image (or similar)

From: Edson Noboru Yamada (eyamada_at_DIVEO.NET.BR)
Date: 03/31/04

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    Date:         Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:28:52 -0300
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    Hello,

    I have a cluster with 2 nodes, one active and other in standby mode.
    The data disk is mounted by the active node only.

    What IŽd like to do in order to backup this disk is:

    a) Make a disk shadow image (that is a exact copy of the original);
    b) Make the standby node mount the shadow image;
    c) The standy node could then backup the data.

    Is that possible?

    I was told that as the both disks PVID are exactly the same,
    AIX can not accept this situation. Is that true?

    Thank you

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