Restore predefined disk drives for integrated Windows servers

Disk drives that contain the Windows operating system and registry are in the integrated file system. You restore these predefined disk drives just as you do user-defined disk drives. To restore disk drives in the integrated file system on i5/OS™, use the Restore (RST) command:

  1. If you are restoring from save media, ensure that you have mounted your media.
  2. If there are no network server storage spaces that currently exist on the system (none appear when you use the WRKNWSSTG command), you must create the /QFPNWSSTG directory before you can restore network server storage spaces that you saved beneath that directory. To create the /QFPNWSSTG directory, complete these steps:
    1. On the i5/OS command line, type CRTNWSSTG to create a network server storage space and press F4.
    2. Provide a name for the storage space.
    3. Use the minimal size allowed and specify the appropriate disk pool (ASP).
    4. Press Enter to create the storage space. i5/OS creates the storage space in the /QFPNWSSTG directory.
  3. To restore the storage spaces, type RST and press F4.
  4. In the Name field under Objects:, specify '/QFPNWSSTG/stgspc' and 'dev/QASPnn/stgspc.UDFS', where stgspc is the name of the network server storage space and nn is the number of the disk pool.
    Note:
    To restore the .UDFS object to an independent disk pool, the disk pool device must be varied on. Specify dev/independent ASP name/stgspc.UDFS where independent ASP name is the name of the independent disk pool and stgspc is the name of the network server storage space.

    To restore the system (C) drive, use /QFPNWSSTG/nwsdname1. To restore the D drive, use /QFPNWSSTG/nwsdname2.

  5. Specify values for any other parameters that you want and press Enter to restore the storage space.
  6. You also need to restore any user defined disk drives that are associated with the server and restore the NWSD. See Restore user-defined disk drives for integrated Windows servers . When you are done restoring the NWSD and all its associated disk drives, vary on the integrated server.
Note:
If the server was installed before V4R5, see Restore predefined disk drives for integrated Windows servers created on pre-V4R5 systems in the V5R3 iSeries™ Information Center.