Hi Hariganesh,
I'm not able to list content of these directories, only answer I get is: "Permission denied"
hscroot@HMC19:~> ls -latr /data/
total 2097244
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Mar 6 2018 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 6 2018 hmc
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 6 2018 lpmffdc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 6 2018 cloud-connector
drwxr-xr-x 3 root hmc 4096 Jan 20 2020 updates
drwxr-xr-x 4 ccfw ccfw 4096 Apr 9 2020 healthmon
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 2 2020 adm
drwxrwxrwx 9 ccfw ccfw 4096 Nov 6 15:07 feedback
-rw------- 1 root root 2147483648 Dec 9 11:24 hmcxtraswap
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 9 11:25 info
drwxr-xr-x 2 postgres postgres 4096 Dec 9 11:33 postgresbackup
drwxrwsr-x 4 sfp sfp 4096 Jan 12 05:13 sfp
drwxrwxr-x 2 ccfw ccfw 4096 Jan 13 18:18 codpool
drwxrwxr-x 5 ccfw ccfw 4096 Jan 13 18:32 pcm
drwxr-xr-x 4 ccfw ccfw 4096 Jan 13 18:37 pmc
drwxr-xr-x 6 ccfw ccfw 4096 Jan 19 14:15 srr
drwxrwxr-x 27 root root 4096 Feb 25 12:48 ..
drwxr-x--- 3 ccfw ccfw 4096 Feb 27 11:53 viosconfig
drwxr-xr-x 19 ccfw ccfw 4096 Feb 27 11:53 .
drwx------ 19 postgres postgres 4096 Feb 28 01:00 postgres
hscroot@HMC19:~> ls -latr /data/viosconfig
ls: cannot open directory '/data/viosconfig': Permission denied
Same message when I try to list a directory /data/viosconfig/<MTMS>/UUID directly ...
VIOs UUID is the one I get from lsattr -El sys0 within VIO OS, correct?
Regards!
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Peter Hornung
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Original Message:
Sent: Sun February 28, 2021 02:28 AM
From: HARIGANESH MURALIDHARAN
Subject: VIO IO backup/restore in HMC V9R2M950
Hi Peter,
There is no CLI yet for the VIOS backup/restore function which was introduced in HMC V9 R2 950. You should be able to scp the backup files from HMC (/data/viosconfig/systemMTMS/viosUUID) to another server.
Thanks.
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Hariganesh Muralidharan
Cognitive Systems Management Architecture
IBM
Original Message:
Sent: Sat February 27, 2021 06:46 AM
From: Peter Hornung
Subject: VIO IO backup/restore in HMC V9R2M950
Hello Hariganesh,
is there any HMC CLI command to do initiate the VIO configuration backup without using the GUI? I looked at the CLI documentation, but I was not able to find it there....
And regarding the created configuration backup file on the HMC (I assume it is stored unter /data/viosconfig): is there any chance to copy those files to any remote server location? I tried with hscroot user and only got a "Permission denied" failure ;-(( ....
Thank you for support, and have a nice day! Regards!
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Peter Hornung
Original Message:
Sent: Wed February 03, 2021 11:18 AM
From: HARIGANESH MURALIDHARAN
Subject: VIO IO backup/restore in HMC V9R2M950
Hi Tommi,
Copy of the backup from VIOS to HMC via SCP. Is the failure seen all the time?
Thanks.
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Hariganesh Muralidharan
Cognitive Systems Management Architecture
IBM
Original Message:
Sent: Tue January 26, 2021 03:49 AM
From: Tommi Sihvo
Subject: VIO IO backup/restore in HMC V9R2M950
Hello!
I ended up situation where backup file was created successfully@VIOS end (/home/padmin/cfgbackups) ..but then it complained regarding upload to HMC..Any idea which command (scp/sftp) & account this is using when trying to fetch the image? The error message itself does not tell much :)
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Tommi Sihvo, Lead Service Architect
TietoEVRY, Compute Services
email tommi.sihvo@tieto.com mobile +358 (0)40 5180 Finland
Original Message:
Sent: Mon January 25, 2021 05:05 AM
From: Bartlomiej Grabowski
Subject: VIO IO backup/restore in HMC V9R2M950
So I was able to make a backup to the HMC (make sure you have enough space in /home/padmin file system on the VIO), but it looks that this image can't be used for restore/installation process from the GUI :( The interface does not offer this image as a recovery image.
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Bartlomiej Grabowski
Original Message:
Sent: Sat January 23, 2021 03:09 PM
From: Peter Hornung
Subject: VIO IO backup/restore in HMC V9R2M950
Hello!
I just read about new functionality in HMC V9R2M950 in Hariganesh's post "What's new in HMC V9 R2 M950" , and I wanted to examine new VIO server related tasks.
So I looked at my HMC upgraded to V9R2M950 including iFix MH01871, and I found new task "Validate Maintenance Readyness" within task "VIO actions - Operations".
But looking into all menu items I was not able to find any selection to perform VIO IO configuration backup and/or restore as mentioned.
Are these functions only available using REST API (because links in Hariganesh's post are pointing to infocenter REST API reference)?
Please provide me a hint where to find these new fundtions within HMC GUI .... from my point of view tcould be very usefull!
Thank you for support, have a nice day, regards
Peter Hornung, SVA
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Peter Hornung
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