Multiple AIX 1.2 Installs

[Kevin P. Kleinfelter]

Recently I posted that one could "clone" an AIX machine via a
stand-alone backup, and a partial install, followed by a stand-alone
restore.

I just discovered that stand-alone backup under AIX 1.2 is broken.
It will not backup to "/dev/rmt0".  It accepts the device name,
but reports that it cannot open the device.  I KNOW that this worked
under AIX 1.1.  The alternative that I have used for AIX 1.2 is
to boot the maintennance diskette, and
  dd if=/dev/hd? of=/dev/rmt0 bs=4096 conv=sync

This seems to work.


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Kevin Kleinfelter @ Management Science America, Inc (404) 239-2347
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