Re: Image Catalog over NFS

Le 09/12/2024 à 17:51, Patrik Schindler a écrit :

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.

Wouldn't it be possible to prepare the image catalog with VFYIMGCLG TYPE(*UPGRADE) NFSSHR(*YES) so that the VOLUME_LIST file and BOOTP subdirectory and appropriate files are created? You could try to run this command just after the Save21.

If you can set up an NFS and TFTP server on Linux (which I am quite sure is possible), you could try to run a network install from your Linux server as described in this redbook https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4937.pdf. Although everything is done with an NFS and TFTP server running on an IBM i system, maybe it will work the same from a Linux one.