Re: restoring from one B50 to another (MKSYSB) problem

From: Ron Stohl (rsstohl_at_PRIVATE.com)
Date: 08/18/04 

Date: 17 Aug 2004 18:56:21 EDT

This might be a bit late, but you should give Storix a try instead of
mksysb. The free download version will do what you need. It creates a
system backup that you can tailor to fit on the new disks AFTER you
start the recovery instead of having to massage all of the config files
to fit the new system BEFORE creating the backup. If you have your AIX
install CD and insert it after the Storix install starts, it will
automatically pull off the CD any device support for new adapters that
are not restored from the backup. We have used this to go from older
RSPC machines to CHRP with entirely different drivers and disk configs
and worked like a charm.

ExtraT wrote:

> I want to restore a MKSYB tape created on one B50 to another B50.
> The only hardware differences between these two machines are the
> disks, and the SCSI adapter.
> The source machine has two 18 GD disks, the target has two 36 GB disks
> The source machine has an optional PCI SCSI controller card, the
> target has only the standard SCSI port on the back and lower edge of
> the machine.
> The disks are not mirrored.
> When I restore the tape it starts out ok, but after about an hour it
> shows "Over mounting /."
> and later:
> "No such file or directory"
> "Log [5]: /var/adm/ras/bi.log: cannot create"
> From this point the system seems to be in an endless loop because only
> the elapsed time in minutes increases but nothing else and if I leave
> it running overnight I find it back the following morning, still
> busy..
>
> Should I make another MKSYSB with different options or should I be
> able to restore from this tape?
>
> Any help highly appreciated!
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ET

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