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When doing a system recovery often the things that can break your recovery procedures is having a new system that is new and completely dissimilar from the old system. This recovery procedure will walk you thru the process of creating the backup image and image restoration. Describe the recovery problem and its fixes.

Assumptions:

     Make sure the Resource Controller daemon is running

       lssrc -a

    If its down restart the Resource Controller daemon.

OS LEVEL : AIX
DATE     : 29/01/2001
VERSION  : 1.8

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       To checkin new tapes:

            label libvolume {3570a} checkin=scratch
                search=bulkhead labelsource=prompt

1. Export all volume groups except for rootvg

    exportvg  VGDATA

2.  Set tape device block size to 512

    chdev -l rmt0 -a block=512 -T

3. Create a rootvg backup using mksysb

     mksysb -i /dev/rmt0

4. Reboot the system from CDROM