You can back up the Virtual I/O Server base code,
applied fix packs, custom device drivers to support disk subsystems,
and some user-defined metadata to tape.
If the system is managed by the Integrated Virtualization Manager, then you need to
back up your partition profile data for the management partition and
its clients before you back up the Virtual I/O Server. For instructions, see Backing up and restoring
partition data. (Alternatively, you can use the bkprofdata command.)
To back up the Virtual I/O Server to tape, follow
these steps:
- Assign a tape drive to the Virtual I/O Server.
- Get the device name by typing the following command:
lsdev -type tape
If the tape device
is in the
Defined state, type the following command,
where
dev is the name of your tape device:
cfgdev -dev dev
- Type the following command, where tape_device is
the name of the tape device you want to back up to:
backupios -tape tape_device
This command creates a bootable tape that you can use
to restore the Virtual I/O Server.
- If you plan to restore the Virtual I/O Server to a different
system from which it was backed up, you need to back
up the user-defined virtual devices. For instructions,
see Backing up user-defined virtual devices by using the backupios command.
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