Section 13.4. savevg Operations

13.4. savevg Operations

savevg can be used almost identically to mksysb except you specify a volume group to back up instead of defaulting to rootvg. The volume group must be varied on (that is, active), and the filesystem must be mounted. The exclude list for savevg is handled by /etc/exclude.<vgname>, where <vgname> is replaced with the name of the volume group that you want to back up.

13.4.1. Using savevg to Back Up a Volume Group

In this example, we back up datavg to an NFS share:

Client # mount NFS_Server:/NFS_mount/savevg /NFS_mount/savevg Client # savevg e m f /NFS_mount/savevg/client-datavg-6-1-06.svg_image datavg Creating information file for volume group datavg. Creating list of files to back up. Backing up 13 files 13 of 13 files (100%) 0512-038 savevg: Backup Completed Successfully.