Re: Mirrored mksysb restore to single drive

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Date:         Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:44:04 +0200
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

It may still fail, even with a large disk, as Phillip Ford describes.

If you're planning in advance, it's simpler to create a custom /image.data
file before you run your mksysb. That way you can leave the mirror alone.
Just change the number of copies to 1, and set PP equal to LP for all LVs.
Not so useful if you've got an existing mksysb you need to restore.

For my own interest, if I have time I'll try a restore this afternoon with
image.data on a supplemental diskette.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Jolet [mailto:john.jolet@FXFN.COM]
> Sent: 10 June 2004 15:37
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: Mirrored mksysb restore to single drive
>
>
> it will create both copies, but on the same drive, so your
> drive has to
> be twice as big as what you're restoring...we've had that
> happen.  best
> bet is to write a script that breaks the mirror, does the
> makesysb, then
> resilvers the mirror.
>
> Raj Atwal wrote:
>
> > The other day a colleague asked me a question and I was not sure of
> > the answer. I was asked that if a mksysb was taken on a system which
> > had two drives mirrored, and was subsequently used to restore to a
> > similar system that either only had one disk or one disk was chosen
> > through the install menus - whether this would fail or whether AIX
> > would be smart enough to install the server and just not mirror?

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