Re: HMC Backup: How Often?

[Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have found that doing a full image backup, with an acronis-like tool
(ghost or whathaveyou) is the best. I had a client that was on v6
code, and had the "logs are full, hmc hangs" bug. Before i understood
how to upgrade to new levels and such i reinstalled, restored the
config from the Save HMC Data and then imaged the drive. a few months
later i had to restore from there when it happened again.
Nowadays i know better, to go into the cli and clean the logs by hand.
but the fastest solution in case of hmc failure imho is to have a
working installation imaged.

Best regards,


On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Pete Massiello - ML
<pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I assume you did a SAVE HMC Data, and not a SAVE Upgrade Data.
>
> You would restore this data after using your recovery media to rebuild your HMC
>
>        Pete
>
> Pete Massiello
> iTech Solutions
> http://www.itechsol.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sam_L
> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:21 PM
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> Subject: HMC Backup: How Often?
>
> We updated our HMC a couple of weeks ago and I just did a backup today to a USB drive.  Got less than a gig of data.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) How often should we backup the HMC?
>
> 2) What can be done with the back up?
>
> Thanks,  Sam
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