RE: Backup HMC Data - question about size -- MIDRANGE-L

Thanks, that makes sense. And I will have a look at these commands!

Adam Driver
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message: 1
date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:47:55 -0500
date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:47:55 -0500
from: "Laine, Rogers" <rlaine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Backup HMC Data - question about size

I run these commands before doing the backup critical data////

Monhmc -r disk

Chhmcfs -o f -d 0

Monhmc -r disk
Rogers

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DrFranken
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 2:40 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Backup HMC Data - question about size

Save UPGRADE data is very small. Essentially your users, connections,
partitions, network config and that's about it.

The HMC DATA can be very large depending on how many fixes and updates
you've installed on the thing since it was last installed from upgrade
data. That size doesn't surprise me at all.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

On 7/28/2010 3:15 PM, ADriver@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to get people's thoughts on something. Running a Power 6

550

system with five partitions and HMC version 7R340. I've just done a

Save

Upgrade Data and a HMC Data backup. My question relates to the size of

the

Data backup, nearly 4.6GB across two files. This is almost as big as

the

recovery media I downloaded from IBM.

The Save HMC Data does not save the base HMC code and Linux OS does

it?

You still need the recovery media PLUS HMC Upgrade backup PLUS HMC

Data

backup to completely recover a HMC don't you? The Info Center seems to
suggest the base HMC system is not included in the HMC Data backup (
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/powersys/v3r1m5/index.jsp).

It's just that 4.6GB seems a lot for five partitions and a hand full

users. Could this be mostly log files? If so, any ideas on how we can
clean these up?

Thanks

Adam Driver

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