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26. Utilities
This section provides instruction on the use of the utilities that are not typically used on a day-to-day basis but
provide useful features or the ability to tailor the behavior of the application.
Create/Manage Boot Media
System Installation media is bootable media which may be used to boot the system to the SBAdmin System
Installation process. To create boot media, select the following:
Utilities
!Create/Manage Boot Media
Numerous options are available for creating system boot media, depending on the operating system and system
type:
•
CDROM image – A CDROM image is an ISO9660 format filesystem image, which may be burned to a CD
writer using any number of third party applications. For most Linux systems, you can use the “cdrecord”
command, on Solaris use the “cdrw” command, and on AIX systems you can use the “cdwrite” command.
These software applications must be installed separately (not provided by SBAdmin), and you must refer to
the instructions with the individual application for detailed instructions.
•
Tape – Bootable tapes may be made created if the hardware platform supports booting from tape. At this
time, only the IBM System p and System i type systems support booting from tape, and SBAdmin will
support creation of bootable tapes for both AIX and Linux on this platform. When a
System Backup
is
written to the beginning of a tape, the tape is automatically made bootable for the client’s system type (if
the hardware supports it). For AIX systems, you may also specify in the backup profile the type of system
for which to create the boot tape (i.e. CHRP, RS6K, etc). Refer to the
for additional
information on the platform type for bootable tapes.
•
Hard Disks – Any hard disk, internal, external, or portable, may be made bootable after configuring the
hard disk as a Local System Backup Disk. This option is available when configuring Clients (if using
Network Edition) or Backup Devices and Directories (for Workstation Edition) as described in the
section. Using a hard disk as a boot/recovery device is very handy,
especially when storing the System Backup on the disk, because a system can be booted and reinstalled
from a spare disk (such as portable USB or SAN-attached disk) without the need for any other boot media.
•
Network – Network boot images allow a client system to be booted over the network from a Boot Server.
This option will create the images and copy them to the boot server. You can create a single boot image for
compatible systems (i.e. same OS release and hardware type), or a separate boot image for each client. A
separate option is used to Enable a Client for Network Boot, which is described in the
SBAdmin System
Recovery Guide
.
For Linux, the network boot images are created and copied to the boot
server, but some bootloader configuration must be manually performed by
the user. This is automated on AIX and Solaris systems, but is more difficult
for Linux due to the number of different boot loaders and configuration file
formats that are available.
Creation of each of these media types is described in more detail in the respective sections of the Recovery
Guide for each operating system. Refer to the
SBAdmin System Recovery Guide
for details.
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