Originally posted by: CHPrjohnso

We have been creating a bootable mksysb tape for each AIX server. For those servers without tape drives we created a mksysb image on an nfs filesystem. On the target we ran: mksysb -F /directory/serverA /dev/rmt0

This began to fail when we updated our target server (also the nim server) to AIX 6.1.6. IBM has recreated the problem and is still looking into it. It worked at AIX 6.1.4. Our source server in this case is at AIX 5.3.11.

Can others advise a procedure to create create a bootable tape for servers without their own tape drive? We are looking for something other than Sysback. We need to send these tapes offsite. Thank you
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Originally posted by: unixgrl

Can you create your mksysb locally and then scp/ftp it to the NFS repository?
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Originally posted by: CHPrjohnso

Yes, however that does not give us a bootable tape.
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Originally posted by: jtheo

You can try the old rmksysb script: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq/part5/section-11.html
Usually I prepare the 4 file (bootimage, mkinsttape, toc and rootvg) by hand and when I will write then on tape with a "script" (attahced) I wrote.
Maybe you have to change the block size when You write the first 3 file, depending from your tape drive.
If I help you...
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Originally posted by: CHPrjohnso

IBM has come back to us and said that patches in AIX 6.1.6 caused the problem we have creating a bootable mksysb tape with the -F option. We backed down to AIX 6.1.4 and it seems to work now.

Likely one of these APARS caused the problem:

IZ71654 Support for deploying mksysbs at higher level then master AIX 6100-05
IZ72034 Support for deploying mksysbs at higher level then master AIX 6100-06
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