On Thursday 14 September 2006 06:22, Steven Harris wrote: > Lessons: > > 1. Always keep a green screen terminal on hand - actually a null modem > cable into hyperterm would have done the trick. > > 2. AIX 5.2 and above require you to generate a new boot CD after every > maintenance update. > > 3. If you use the Atape driver, the generated boot cd is not usable. I > would suggest that Atape users should order a refresh of their install > CDs with every maintenance update they do. > > 4. test your recovery procedures before you need to. At least in this > case production was not affected. Nice story ;)
And number 5. learn how to use nim. What you could have done is making the SAP machine a nim master and restore the QA over the network. I once recovered a machine by booting it over the network with nim with the nim server located on an other site, connected with a vpn ;) Stef
