From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 14:06:28 EST
With all of your application data in external VGs you could probably afford
to use a week-old mksysb. Apart from home directories and passwords there's
not much volatile data in rootvg.
I only do mksysbs once a week, normally, but schedule extra ones if I'm
doing anything major.
Simon Green
Altria ITSC Europe s.a.r.l.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Myers, Drew [mailto:MyersD@GOALAMO.COM]
> Sent: 17 March 2003 18:49
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: Installation woes
>
>
> I agree, and that's excellent advice. Unfortunately, up to now, I do
> savevgs (all my user's data is on non-rootvg volume groups)
> only once a
> month, while doing mksysb's weekly.
>
> Of course, that will be changing now ;)
>
> Thanks again.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Green, Simon [mailto:Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM]
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 1:47 PM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: Installation woes
>
>
> Ah! Smart move.
> I think you're correct: reject those updates and look for
> unwanted filesets
> to remove.
>
> Probably doesn't need saying, but take a mksysb after you've done the
> reject, just in case.
>
> I'd still be inclined to restore from a mksysb done before
> the updates, if
> you have one. I always like to get back to a known condition
> when I'm in
> trouble.
>
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