PowerVM

Hi there

My migration to 4.1.0.10 fails during copying of our own created FS during the viosupgrade procedure:

viosupgrade -l -i /tmp/vio41_mksysb -a hdisk1 -g backupfiles.txt
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Copying /usr/ips contents to /alt_inst/usr/ips failed

I read that I can exclude these FS with -X ROOTUSRFS but then it fails with:

Migration of contents to new rootvg initiated.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/ios/sbin/viosupg.pl line 7822.
Unmatched ( in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/( <-- HERE /usr/ios/cli/ioscli/ at /usr/ios/sbin/viosupg.pl line 10849.

then I tried:

viosupgrade -l -i /tmp/vio41_mksysb -a hdisk1 -g backupfiles.txt -X ROOTUSRFS:/var/ips:/etc/ips:/usr/ips
Unsupported -X option '/VAR/IPS'.

$ viosupgrade -l -i /tmp/vio41_mksysb -a hdisk1 -g backupfiles.txt -X ROOTUSRFS:/var/ips,/etc/ips,/usr/ips
Unsupported -X option '/VAR/IPS,/ETC/IPS,/USR/IPS'.

$ viosupgrade -l -i /tmp/vio41_mksysb -a hdisk1 -g backupfiles.txt -X ROOTUSRFS:/var/ips;/etc/ips;/usr/ips
Unsupported -X option '/VAR/IPS'.
rksh: /etc/ips: 0403-019 The operation is not allowed in a restricted shell.
rksh: /usr/ips: 0403-019 The operation is not allowed in a restricted shell.

$ viosupgrade -l -i /tmp/vio41_mksysb -a hdisk1 -g backupfiles.txt -X ROOTUSRFS:/var/ips -X ROOTUSRFS:/etc/ips -X ROOTUSRFS:/usr/ips
Unsupported -X option '/USR/IPS'.

What is the correct syntax to exclude more than 1 Filesystem ?

Thanks in advance and kind regards,

Stefano

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Stefano Calisto
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Hi everybody

Problem has been solved. There where some pid files from Splunk that had to be removed and also an offending  cron entry (viosbr -nobackup).

Afterwards the migration went through without a hitch.

Thanks to IBM Support for the help and kind regards,

Stefano