Re: Image Catalog over NFS

Hello Larry,

Am 09.12.2024 um 16:58 schrieb Larry DrFranken Bolhuis <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Cool that you have this working.

Thank you for your encouragement. :-)

I do suspect the vary on delay is 'about right' as there are networkie things going on there.

This is less about networkie things but about asynchronous things going on. On Linux, most often commands return no earlier than they have finished their work. On IBM i, this is not always the case. I guess, sometimes commands just "flip a switch" in the MI layer, and return after having flipped the switch. This doesn't automatically mean that the work this triggered is done.

While this is nice for immediately getting control back in an interactive session, it makes things utterly hard in CL programs.

I fully expect that you will get a SAVE 21 working to that Linux system.

Thank you. I also think, it's doable. This explanation helps a lot to understand the foundation:

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/running-full-system-save-or-savsys-restricted-state-batch

My goal is to eventually run the same CL a Save 21 eventually runs. Or at least use it as a template.

BUT I have to ask how you would utilize that save to do a full system restore? THAT will be very difficult, sorry, make that Impossible, from the Linux system!

Current (untested) recovery plan is to make the resulting Save21 image available to VIOS, so it can be used as IPL volume. Foremost by manually FTP'ing it over to the optical image pool. Preferably by mounting the backup server's NFS directory into VIOS (AIX) so direct access is possible without hassle. I do have a lot of Linux and UNIX experience, but the peculiarities of AIX are still new to me.

More testing necessary.

:wq! PoC