You will want to use the CDROM to boot from, that saves you having to put the required code that is needed for your "disaster" machine on your current SP node. How that works is (briefly): Boot from CDROM, get to where it says something like "System Recovery" or Recover from mksysb tape - It's been a while since I've done it. At the point where you select the tape device, THEN insert the mksysb tape in drive and continue. What happens is it restores mksysb and at point where you need certain code (like uniprocessor code on a uniprocessor machine and your original machine was MP) then it pulls that code off the CDROM.
This means you can take a mksysb tape from any RS/6000 or and restore to any other RS/6000, regardless of processor class or hardware. Important point to mention is that the CDROM has to be at same OS level as the mksysb tape - the original machine! You can spend time figuring what filesets would be needed for target machine and install them on current machine, but this takes detailed examination and you can miss something. And the machine you restore to in a disaster may not be what you had planned on etc. etc. BTW: For rebuilding an AIX machine, the TSM backup is not enough, you need a mksysb tape (or if restoring an SP node, the image on the Control Workstation) to do base restore first. Or a 3rd party product like Bare Metal Restore from The Kernel Group I think does this without a mksysb tape. Hope this helps some. David B. Longo System Administrator Health First, Inc. 3300 Fiske Blvd. Rockledge, FL 32955-4305 PH 321.434.5536 Pager 321.634.8230 Fax: 321.434.5525 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/02/02 01:40PM >>> No, I do not have a tape drive attached to the SP node. I have introduced AIX sysback as an alternative. Several colleagues stated that you could boot from cdrom and use the image on tape as input and basically I am restored. I disagreed. But thanks. Sysback appears to be much easier than jumping through hoops. -----Original Message----- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recovering SP node to Standalone RS6000 Do you have a tape drive physically attached to the SP node? If so then you can do fairly easily. If not then I think you need AIX Sysback to make a mksysb to a remote tape. You can't make a mksysb image to disk and then copy that image to tape - it's not a bootable image. David Longo >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/02/02 12:50PM >>> Here is what I need to accomplish or would like to. Create a mksysb of the SP Node, copy the image to media. At the recovery site, I will need to restore this image to the standalone rs6000. I do not know if this is possible even if I use the cloning process. -----Original Message----- From: PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recovering SP node to Standalone RS6000 Connect to node and say shutdown -m -----Original Message----- From: Jolley, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Recovering SP node to Standalone RS6000 I have a TSM server located on an IBM SP Node (winterhawk) and would like to recover to a standalone RS/6000 (H80). Do anyone have/know of a procedure or have suggestions? 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