A P0WER5 520 system is being cloned onto a Power 780. The source system is on internal disks, and the vg01 volume group is mirrored. After installing AIX, which sequence of actions will recreate the…

This option describes a generic shutdown of all applications system-wide rather than targeting the sequence of steps specific to safely cloning a data volume group, making it a less precise and incomplete procedure.

mksysb is designed exclusively for backing up the root volume group (rootvg) and cannot be used to back up a data volume group like vg01 - savevg is the correct command for non-rootvg volume groups.

Shutting down all applications is the mandatory first step before backing up a data volume group, because active I/O during backup causes data inconsistency in the resulting image. After a clean application shutdown, the correct tool for backing up a non-rootvg volume group like vg01 is savevg (not mksysb), and the corresponding restore on the Power 780 target is performed with restvg. Ensuring no processes have open file handles on vg01 before backup guarantees the restored volume group on the new system will be in a consistent, usable state.

Shutting down only applications visibly running from the data volume group may miss background daemons or processes with open file handles on vg01, leaving the risk of an inconsistent backup image.