Re: Restoring to a different machine.

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rob

I have encountered this situation a few times building boxes for 
upgrades/migrations
and I do what you noted regarding RTVSYSINF although I've occasionally struck
problems moving between releases. I generally UPDSYSINF for the individual 
components
before deciding whether further remedial action is required.

You might have this covered anyway, but other items I generally have to 
take account of:

1. Restore objects for libraries QUSRSYS and QGPL omitting Q* objects and 
specifying
*NEW on the restore option so that only unknown objects are restored to the 
library.
I generally also examine the output but that this approach has worked well 
for me.

2. Migrating the directory entries if required. I generally output to a 
file using WRKDIRE
and then use a CL to repopulate the directory as required.

3. Migrating the hosts table if required. I have saved and restored 
QATCHOSTS (check
the name) to a different library and used a CL to add the host table 
entries. Often it is
easier to either use the fiel to get them into the DNS or just re-key them 
(depends on
the number of entries and how clean it is)

Hope this helps

Regards
Evan Harris

> Did a restore to a different machine last week for some offsite testing
> purposes.  Now, if it was always up to me I'd do the boot from tape with
> the system initialization option.  A compromise would be a boot from
> install CD with the full initialization, then the LIC install from CD,
> followed by the install of OS, etc from the backup media.  Then reapply
> ptf's.
>
> However, for reasons I don't want to go into here, they loaded both LIC
> and OS from install media.  And loaded all LPP's.  How does one best
> recover?  This is what I tried.  After the restore of the user profiles,
> libraries, folders, IFS objects and authority from my save media.  Back on
> the original system I did a
> CRTLIB xxx
> RTVSYSINF xxx
> CRTDUPOBJ OBJ(Q*) FROMLIB(QSYS) OBJTYPE(*SBSD) TOLIB(xxx)
> SAVLIB LIB(xxx) DEV(*SAVF) SAVF(MYLIB/MYSAVF)
> ftp'ed that bad boy over
> CRTDUPOBJ the sbsd's back over
> UPDSYSINF xxx
>
> I'm thinking of adding a RTVSYSINF and the appropriate CRTDUPOBJ's to all
> of my preinstructions to a complete system save.  That way I have the data
> on the tape.  Any other suggestions?
>
> Rob Berendt