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  • 1.  difference between mksysb and mkinsttape

    Posted Fri February 22, 2008 08:02 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Hello Experts,

    I am new in AIX. Can you all help me about what is the usage difference between command mksysb and mkinsttape ?

    As I understand both commands do task of creating image file of BOS.

    Thanks to all in advance.
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  • 2.  Re: difference between mksysb and mkinsttape

    Posted Fri February 22, 2008 08:39 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Check out the following redbook.
    http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246191.pdf
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  • 3.  Re: difference between mksysb and mkinsttape

    Posted Fri February 22, 2008 09:35 AM

    Originally posted by: orphy


    Are you just interested in knowing the difference or that you have something specific in mind? We typically don't need to run mkinsttape. Running mksysb will take get you the image for recovery. In fact, mksysb calls mkinsttape to do some of the works for you already. If you are interested in both, you can read them since they are nothing more than ksh scripts.
    Orphy
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