Storix Software SBAdmin AIX System Recovery Guide - Manual (Page 5)

Storix System Backup Administrator 5 Version 8.2 AIX System Recovery Guide
1. Introduction
The
SBAdmin AIX System Installation Guide is a supplement to the SBAdmin User Guide, providing details
on reinstalling an AIX system from a SBAdmin System Backup. Note that a System Backup is not limited to
reinstalling the same system from which it was made, but it may also be used to “clone” the original system onto
different systems containing the same or different hardware.
When to Use this Guide
This guide provides instructions for booting and reinstalling a system from a SBAdmin System Backup. This
document should be reviewed after first installing the software to become familiar with this process and its
requirements BEFORE a system installation is required.
Installation from a System Backup is fairly intuitive, but there is information and steps that must be taken to be
prepared in the event that a system re-installation is required. The System Backup contains all of the backup
data and the information needed to recreate the system and restore the data. If the System Backup is on a tape,
then you can boot the system from the tape, so no other media is required. If your System Backup was written
to a disk image file on a server, then you must either create a network boot image for booting the client, or a
separate Boot-only tape for booting the client to the installation menus.
This guide will refer to information found in the SBAdmin User Guide. When doing so, the reference term or
section will be shown in
Blue Text . If you need to refer to that information in the Administrator User Guide,
highlighted sections ( in bold ) can be found in the Table of Contents , and other terms can be found in the
Index .
Note that some of the screens in this guide are not seen when you are using the TSM Edition.