Backup your current configuration below command.
$ viosbr -backup -file tvios01_cfg_backup
$ viosbr -view -list
tvios01_cfg_backup.tar.gz
And lets restore
$ viosbr -restore -file tvios01_cfg_bck -validate
Restore summary on vio:
Dev name during BACKUP Is Valid? Is Deployable?
====================== ========= ==============
iscsi0 YES NO
sissas0 NO NO
pkcs11 YES NO
sata0 NO NO
fcs0 NO NO
fcs1 NO NO
fcs2 NO NO
fcs3 NO NO
sfwcomm0 NO NO
sfwcomm1 NO NO
sfwcomm2 NO NO
sfwcomm3 NO NO
fscsi0 NO NO
sfwcomm4 NO NO
ent0 NO NO
fscsi1 NO NO
ent1 NO NO
fscsi2 NO NO
ent2 NO NO
fscsi3 NO NO
ent3 NO NO
ent4 NO NO
ent5 NO NO
sas0 NO NO
sfw0 YES NO
ent8 NO NO
hdisk0 NO NO
hdisk1 NO NO
ent6 NO NO
ent7 NO NO
en7 YES NO
vios0 YES NO
vioslpm0 YES NO
vlogrepo0 YES NO
rootvg YES NO
VMLibrary NO NO
vhost13 NO NO
vhost0 NO NO
vhost1 NO NO
vhost2 NO NO
vhost3 NO NO
vhost4 NO NO
vhost5 NO NO
vhost6 NO NO
vhost7 NO NO
vhost8 NO NO
vhost9 NO NO
vhost10 NO NO
vhost12 NO NO
vfchost16 NO NO
vfchost17 NO NO
vfchost18 NO NO
vfchost19 NO NO
vfchost20 NO NO
vfchost21 NO NO
vfchost24 NO NO
vfchost25 NO NO
vfchost26 NO NO
vfchost27 NO NO
vfchost0 NO NO
vfchost1 NO NO
vfchost2 NO NO
vfchost3 NO NO
vfchost4 NO NO
vfchost5 NO NO
vfchost10 NO NO
vfchost6 NO NO
vfchost11 NO NO
vfchost7 NO NO
vfchost12 NO NO
vfchost8 NO NO
vfchost13 NO NO
vfchost9 NO NO
vfchost14 NO NO
vfchost15 NO NO