Unix System Administrator

To restore a mksysb without mirroring. the following procedure can be used NOTE: Access to another AIX system and an AIX formatted diskette is required to perform this procedure.  All references to the tape device in the next section are as rmt0. On another AIX system, place the mksysb tape in the tape drive. Change the block size of the tape drive to 512 by running: chdev -l rmt0 -a block_size=512   Create a temporary directory in /tmp called newdata .   mkdir /tmp/newdata Change to the /tmp/newdata directory. Enter:   cd /tmp/newdata    Make sure that the tape is rewound. Enter: tctl -f /dev/rmt0 rewind    Restore the image.data file from the second image of the mksysb tape. Enter: restore -s2 -xqvf /dev/rmt0.1 ./image.data    Edit the /tmp/newdata/image.data file and make changes to each of the lv_data stanzas as in

Creating a mksysb without mirroring If the ability to retrun the mksysb is available, the following procedure will allow you to create a mksysb without preserving mirroring.  To create a new image.data file, run the following command:  mkszfile  Change into the / directory and vi the image.data file. Enter: cd / vi image.data  The following examples show an lv_data stanza of an image.data file. The first example is with mirroring, while the second example shows the edited version without mirroring. The lines that need changes are marked by --> and are boldfaced. In the second example, the changes are made to those lines.        To view and edit the file,enter:  vi image.data Example 1     lv_data:                 VOLUME_GROUP= rootvg                 LV_SOURCE_DISK_LIST= hdisk0                 LV_IDENTIFIER= 00000001113f3c62.5                 LOGICAL_VOLUME= hd2                 VG_STAT= active/complete                 TYPE= jfs                 MAX_