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 Rob,

In the Backup and Recovery manual is a section on how to restore your system
to a new serial number.  I have tailored this procedure to fit our
environment.  There are some basic changes to be made but nothing drastic.
I can send you a copy of my DR procedure which lists the individual steps.  

Tom



 

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From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 5:19 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Restoring to a different machine.

I like your method.  And I have no problem with it.  In fact, many tape
drives cannot be used as an alternate IPL device and you have to do it this
way.  I guess my question was more if someone restored the OS (not just the
LIC) from the install media instead of your tape, how to get stuff back in
sync with the original machine.

Rob Berendt
--
Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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Rob,

I did a DR test recovery at our DR site in March.  I used to IPL our 
SAVSYS
tape and restore the Lic and OP System from there.  This time, at the DR
site they could not IPL our Tapes.  The Lic failed.  Below is the 
procedure
I came up with to load to IPL from CD, Set the Alt IPL device and then 
load
the the tape.



1.               LPAR 1 Install on Primary Partition using CD
2.               Set Mode to MANUAL
3.               Set IPLTYPE to "D"
4.               Load IBM Install CD
5.               Power on Partition
6.               Receive menu to Install LIC or Set ALT IPL device
7.               Change IPL device to our SAVSYS tape
8.               Entered 1 to Install LIC
9.               LIC loaded from tape
10.              Restored rest of system from tape.
11.              Test Completed Successfully




Analysis:                IBM's procedure to install LIC code from an 
Alternate
Installation Device is not well documented for all environments.  There 
are
too many variables involved such as:  Hardware Platform, Hardware
Technology, devices supported, Operating System Release, Program temporary
Fix level, Primary or Secondary LPAR's etc.  My analysis of the above
testing was:

1.               IBM V5R3 does not support the old SPD Cards.  The card 
used in our
test was a 6534 Tape  Controller Card.  The V5R3 does not support the 6534
as an Alternate Installation Device on the Primary Bus.  Only supported on 
a
Secondary LPAR.
2.               When using an IBM Install CD, it must be at the same 
level as that
on the SAVSYS backup.
3.               IPL from CD or DVD, then install the LIC from tape

Tom
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-----Original Message-----
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 1:16 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Restoring to a different machine.


Did a restore to a different machine last week for some offsite testing 
purposes.  Now, if it was always up to me I'd do the boot from tape with 
the system initialization option.  A compromise would be a boot from 
install CD with the full initialization, then the LIC install from CD, 
followed by the install of OS, etc from the backup media.  Then reapply 
ptf's.

However, for reasons I don't want to go into here, they loaded both LIC 
and OS from install media.  And loaded all LPP's.  How does one best 
recover?  This is what I tried.  After the restore of the user profiles, 
libraries, folders, IFS objects and authority from my save media.  Back on 

the original system I did a
CRTLIB xxx
RTVSYSINF xxx
CRTDUPOBJ OBJ(Q*) FROMLIB(QSYS) OBJTYPE(*SBSD) TOLIB(xxx)
SAVLIB LIB(xxx) DEV(*SAVF) SAVF(MYLIB/MYSAVF)
ftp'ed that bad boy over
CRTDUPOBJ the sbsd's back over
UPDSYSINF xxx

I'm thinking of adding a RTVSYSINF and the appropriate CRTDUPOBJ's to all 
of my preinstructions to a complete system save.  That way I have the data 

on the tape.  Any other suggestions?

Rob Berendt

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