Backing up your system ... sort of If you've worked more than 5 minutes on AIX system administration, you would have heard of the famous "mksysb". This refers to the backup named from the mksysb command, which m a k es a sys tem b ackup. Actually, the mksysb doesn't back up your entire AIX system - just the root volume group (rootvg). You still need other backup utilities for databases and non-rootvg file systems. Backup exclusive And, come to think of it, the mksysb doesn't necessarily get all the files in your rootvg. If you have... [More]

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