Re: Mirrored mksysb restore to single drive

From: Raj Atwal (atwalrs_at_YAHOO.COM)
Date: 06/10/04

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    Date:         Thu, 10 Jun 2004 07:42:09 -0700
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    Thanks John, Simon, Phillip.

    I guess the best way is to edit the image.data and remove my second hdisk and run mksyb with -i. Thanks for confirming and answering my quesition.

    Raj Atwal

    John Jolet <john.jolet@FXFN.COM> wrote:
    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?
    >
    >
    >
    > I can't remember ever trying this and I am not entirely sure what
    > would happen. Your experiences and thoughts would be appreciated.
    >
    >
    >
    > I know that prior to taking my mksysb I could edit my image_data file
    > to only show one drive and no mirroring and then take a mksysb without
    > the -i flag and that would restore for sure. But out of curiosity I
    > would be interested to know what would happen if the mksysb were
    > mirrored and I used it to restore to one drive.
    >
    >
    >
    > Thx
    >
    >
    >
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