(Optional) Installing the Stand-Alone Program for Stand-Alone Restore

You can use BMC AMI Cloud full-volume dumps for stand-alone restore. To prepare a Bare-Metal recovery restorable volume, you must install the stand-alone program on the server. The UI provides a special action to prepare a stand-alone copy from a regular full-volume dump. This topic describes the required steps for enabling the creation of stand-alone copies. For more information, see Preparing a stand-alone copy and Performing stand-alone restore from an FTP source.

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Stand-Alone Copy prerequisites

To create a stand-alone copy, you must save the following DFDSS files in the $MODEL9_HOME/SAbackup path:

  • DFSMSDSS.ins
  • DFSMSDSS.IMAGE
  • DFSMSDSS.PREFIX

You can obtain these files from the IBM Customized Offering Driver, which you can download from ShopZ free of charge. 

Important

Do not change the names or letter case of the DFSMSDSS files.

Stand-Alone Restore using FTP prerequisites

Important

Make sure you have applied IBM MCL Bundle H51, which includes EC-P46683.417, to the HMC (Hardware Management Console). EC-P46683.417 addresses "Attempting to perform an LPAR Load via files staged on an FTP server can fail".

To perform a stand-alone restore from removable media accessed via FTP, install the VSFTPD default server by using the following command: 

#Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install vsftpd

#RHEL
sudo yum install vsftpd

A local user with sudopermissions can run the following systemctl commands to enable and start the service: 

sudo systemctl enable vsftpd
sudo systemctl start vsftpd


Important

Do not change the names or letter case of the DFSMSDSS files. 

Stand-Alone Restore from removable media prerequisites

Format the device by using the FAT32 file system. It can reside in any directory except the root path.

 

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