re: Fixing vinum after removing a HDD

2004-12-16 Thread orville weyrich
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:56:29 -0800 (PST) From: orville weyrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: re: Fixing vinum after removing a HDD To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 17:02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: resetconfig The resetconfig command completely obliterates

Re: Has anybody EVER successfully recovered VINUM?

2004-12-10 Thread orville weyrich
See below --- Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: create original.config.file Yes, that's basically it. I tried that already. It did not have the desired effect. It created TWO MORE plexes, that did not have disk space to back them up (because the drives were fully

Re: Has anybody EVER successfully recovered VINUM?

2004-12-09 Thread orville weyrich
See below --- Toomas Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I once had a problem with *invalid* vinum drive which was solved following this advice from Greg Lehey: http://makeashorterlink.com/?V29425BF9 So the procedure that worked for you was??? resetconfig create original.config.file I have seen

Re: Has anybody EVER successfully recovered VINUM?

2004-12-09 Thread orville weyrich
See below --- Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, 9 December 2004 at 7:06:35 -0800, --- Toomas Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I once had a problem with *invalid* vinum drive So the procedure that worked for you was??? resetconfig This doesn't sound like what

Re: Has anybody EVER successfully recovered VINUM?

2004-12-09 Thread orville weyrich
see below --- Toomas Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: orville weyrich wrote: So the procedure that worked for you was??? resetconfig NO!!! At no point in the procedure did I do resetconfig. create original.config.file Yes, that's basically it. I tried that already. It did

Re: Has anybody EVER successfully recovered VINUM?

2004-12-08 Thread orville weyrich
See below --- Toomas Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: orville weyrich wrote: In any event, the example shown in the link lacks context. Is the failed drive named data1? It is automagically replaced by a new drive named data3? In all cases I've replaced a failed drive, I have named

Has anybody EVER successfully recovered VINUM?

2004-12-07 Thread orville weyrich
I have been trying to figure out how to get VINUM to recognize a new disk after a disk failure, and no luck at all. I cannot find instructions in the official documentation, nor in the FreeBSD Dairy. Lots of places tell how to build a VINUM system. Nobody ever takls about how to recover from a

VINUM Disaster Recovery

2004-12-05 Thread orville weyrich
I have a 10 disk VINUM configuration and two of the disks are trashed. In theory there is still enough redundant information to get things working again without data loss. Vinum has detected a configuration error (duh -- two disks are toast, plus in recovery I accidently created two more plexes)

Sendmail mungs sender address

2004-12-04 Thread orville weyrich
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Problems with VINUM recovery

2004-12-04 Thread orville weyrich
how to recover -- the failed drill has suddenly become real :-( I have looked at the document http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/replacing-drive.html and am not sure how to apply it to the above scenario. Please please help ... please orville weyrich VINUM LISTING

FDISK Woes

2004-12-04 Thread orville weyrich
I did a stupid thing and zapped my system FreeBSD 4.3 system disk (/dev/ad0) with FDISK and Label (in /stand/sysinstall)instead of zapping /dev/da0 that I intended to do. Needless to say, my system got sick. I have built a new FreeBSD 4.10 system on another disk and have the old (zapped) system

Re: Sendmail mungs sender address SOLVED

2004-12-04 Thread orville weyrich
--- orville weyrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was running a FreeBSD 4.3 system. It crashed and I built up a new FreeBSD 4.10 system. But I cannot get Sendmail to work the way it did before. The relevant part of my network includes two hosts, call them FIRE and BASHFUL. FIRE is my