Re: Full system save21 without tape to image clg and how to restore without burning all images to dvd

There are three ways to do this.

1) If hosting from IBM i: load this media into the host partition as an image catalogue. Load it into a virtual optical drive. Share that virtual optical drive via vSCSI. Set that vSCSI path as the alternate IPL. Make it happen.

2) If hosting from VIOS: load this media into the VIO partition as a media repository. Load the first volume into a virtual optical drive. Share that virtual optical drive via vSCSI. Set that vSCSI path as the alternate IPL. Make it happen. Note that you may have to change media on the VIO partition as each is completed.

3) If neither of the above but you have another IBM i server available. Load the image catalog there and verify it. Be sure to specify YES for the NFS Share. This will build a BOOTP directory in the catalog directory. CHange your TFTP server for that directory to be the alternate source directory and start it up. Export the image catalog directory with NFS as public read only ('-i -o ro'). Configure the partition to have an Ethernet as the alternate IPL. If it's a virtual Ethernet you're good if it is a physical card you must cable port T1 (Top port) as the code will use that port only. Start the IPL either from the HMC CLI or with current code levels you can indicate the needed parms through there. Note that you will need an IP address and subnet to assign to the new partition for this so it can boot from the BOOTP and NFS shares.

Note that in all three cases you will end up doing the entire restore this way. You desired to complete after moving the images onto the partition but you can't do that without tape or physical optical or USB until you have TCP/IP running. If you've gotten that far you're already set up to restore most of everything that way.

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On 6/7/2019 8:14 AM, Franz.Rauscher@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi!

I have a Power S812 at a hosting-site. I have no easy access to the
machine and the machine has no Tape drive.

i want to to a SAVE21 to a virtual image catalog and then copy the files
to another location via ftp.

but i am not sure how i can do a restore from the save21 images. i only
want to burn the really necessary images to dvd-ram and do the rest of the
restore from virtual image catalog. the procedure would be the following:

1) born the necessary images from save21 to dvd-ram (dont know which and
how much)
2) restore with this dvds to a point where i can ftp the whole image
catalog back to the system
4) restore the rest of the system from the image catalog.

does anyone of you have a documentation if this procedure is possible and
which images have to be burned. or is there another way to do the
recovery. for example to install a fresh system, then copy the image
catalog back and the do a full restore from the virtual image catalog?

Additional Info. I want to use virtual image catalogs and no other
solution like bying a tape drive or a vtl or RDX.


Greetings,
Franz


System: Power S812 IBM-i 7.3 TR6