'mkcd' ... We order dvd-ram drives with our pseries (haven't stepped up to nim yet) ... /usr/sbin/mkcd -e -d /dev/cd0 -L
with /etc/exlude.rootvg file for the -e parm been a while since i read the man page, if that helps at all ... Aaron Durkee Infrastructure Analyst Networking and Technical Group Catholic Health Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (716) 862-1713 fax: (716) 862-1717 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/19/05 01:47PM >>> This is more along the lines of AIX server recovery, but it plays into TSM, too. Without using addtional software, just AIX, how does one create a boot CD that contains all the necessary info to restore a server using a mksysb tape? I understand the process for recovering an AIX server from a mksysb tape backup to different hardware would be to boot the server from a CD of the same OS-ML as the mksysb backup. My TSM server is running on AIX 5200-03. The install media I have is 5200-01. How do I create a boot CD image (ISO, so I can burn the ISO image using a PC CD-W) that contains the 5200-03 files so I can recover the TSM server? My current working documentation requires an install of 5200-01, patch to -03, and install TSM and then restore the DB. That works OK, but takes additional time, and still won't get back everything I need to allow some other node restores to start. I will still have to rebuild some things from scratch. Thanks in advance. Todd
