Correct procedure for restoring system image data

From: Marcelino Mata (mmata_at_MULTIMATIC.COM)
Date: 04/27/04

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    Date:         Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:01:05 -0400
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    I am making preparation to move from AIX 4.3.3ML9 to ML11 then AIX 5.1. As
    I need to perform upgrades, I do not have enough disk space on the current
    4.5Gb O/S disks. I was planning on replacing the 4.5Gb disks with 9.1Gb
    disks. I was going to just use the user friendly program Sysbackup to
    accomplish this. I made a system image of the rootvg ONLY and replaced the
    disks. Everything was going fine during the restore until it informed me
    that a volume group was missing and it wanted to know if sysbackup restore
    should create or delete it. The volume group is a 270GB RAID volume which
    are still present in the system but I do not want touched by sysbackup
    restore. My guess would be to select the create option and then it will
    continue. As I can not afford to lose time due to errors I did nothing (put
    the old disks back in) until I get clarification on what it was actually
    going to do next. If I select "create", will it continue the restore
    without me assigning any filesystem to it or will it force me to assign
    something to it before continuing?

    TIA,

    Marcelino

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