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From: scott@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: backup question
Message-ID: <29787@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 24 May 91 14:57:48 GMT
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In article <7627@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:
!I use a script which pipes the output of find into cpio, but I'm concerned
!about my ability to restore files in the event of a catastrophic disk
!failure.  Suppose the root filesystem gets trashed; can I bring the system
!back up from a tape produced in this way?

No, but you can reinstall the system from a tape made with the backup
command - or with the backup system option from "smit startup.

!
!My system came pre-loaded.  How do I construct a bootable floppy which can
!be used for booting if the system fails?  (I would RTFM, but IBM has a
!policy of handing out manuals on disk rather than on paper.  In the event
!of a catastropic failure, my manuals would therefore be unavailable,
!unless I had some way of fishing them off a tape under a non-IBM operating
!system.)

Well, in this case, the procedure is in TFPM (The F Printed Manual) - its in 
the AIX Installation Guide. This guide should be Operators Information binder.
Also, the 3003 patch set includes a set of boot disks.

-Scott

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