Re: How to back up HMC to disk on IBM i lpar

I would strongly suggest copying the save off the IFS to some other
system. Odds of an issue are low but it would be bad if the files you
needed to rebuild your HMC were in the IFS of the system you also needed
the HMC to define.



On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Not sure what your asking.

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:22 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yeah, I am really wondering about that...
Does a save ever count if you've never restored from that? :-)


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From: Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 05/02/2012 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: How to back up HMC to disk on IBM i lpar
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Now, going through a rebuild of an HMC via the mapped IFS I have not

done,

not sure how robust/complicated this would be.

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:49 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think you're right. I eventually got it.
Size of object data in bytes . . . . . : 4610820612
Allocated size of object . . . . . . . : 4612685824
Really close to that 4.7GB size of the DVD


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From: Dave Snyder <DSnyder@xxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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Date: 05/02/2012 09:25 AM
Subject: RE: How to back up HMC to disk on IBM i lpar
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If you did not get an error message of some type, like invalid
user/password, could not connect, I think you are good. Our backup to
local partition takes 15-20 minutes, and to an offsite box +30 minutes.

I

do not believe it writes out to the disk until near the end, but I

might

be wrong on that.

Dave

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mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
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Subject: RE: How to back up HMC to disk on IBM i lpar

I'd guess I'd feel better if, after 6 minutes of watching
The backup of the HMC console data is in progress. This operation

may

take a considerable amount of time.
Backup starting...
I could see something, anything, with WRKLNK '/rob/hmc/*'


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