From: Adams Kevin J (kevin.adams@PHS.COM)
Date: Wed Sep 25 2002 - 12:53:08 EDT
According to the source, you want to specify -r too.
Also, you're backing up to one place (ruby) and restoring from another
(genoa). Maybe just a bad example.
35 # Input flags:
36 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
37 # -b blocks ## Number of 512-byte blocks to read in a single
38 # ## input operation
39 # ## Defaults to the default of the restore command
40 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
41 # -f device ## Device (file, tape, cdrom) containing the backup
42 # ## Default: /dev/rmt0
43 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
44 # -r ## Indicates files are to be restored from the backup
45 # ## List the files to be restored in the filelist
46 # ## Default: list files only
47 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
48 # -a ## Verify tape physical block size
49 # ## (only applicable if tape device)
50 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
51 # -s ## Specify if backup is of a user volume group (not rootvg)
52 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
53 # -d ## Directory to restore files to (only used with -r)
54 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
55 # filelist ## List of files to be restored if -r flag specified
56 # ## Default: restore all files
57 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Kevin Adams
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick B. O'Brien [mailto:pobrien@DOIT.NV.GOV]
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 5:36 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: [aix-l] Testing Disaster Recovery using mksysb and
restorevgfiles
Hello AIX'ers,
I'm testing my DR. I did a;
#mksysb -i /vol0/.rootvg_backups/ruby/mksysb.file.
To test my backup I did a;
# listvgbackup -f /vol0/.root*/genoa/mksysb.file |grep /etc/hosts
New volume on /vol0/.rootvg_backups/genoa/mksysb.file:
Cluster size is 51200 bytes (100 blocks).
The volume number is 1.
The backup date is: Tue Sep 24 09:26:09 PDT 2002
Files are backed up by name.
The user is xxxxxx.
3275 ./etc/hosts
The number of archived files is 30755.
Then I did a;
#restorevgfiles -f /vol0/.root*/genoa/mksysb.file -d /tmp ./etc/hosts.
This utility scrolled through my mksysb.file file showing all the files.
But it never restored my /etc/hosts to my /tmp directory.
Has anyone been successful in restoring only a file from a mksysb using
restorevgfiles?
Thank you!!!
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