Re: [Veritas-vx] recovering lost vxvm private data from vxprint -hvtand vxprint -htg outputs

2007-05-17 Thread Myers, Mike
You can't recover the private area directly, but if you rebuild logical volumes that are on the exact same boundaries, the file systems inside there will still be intact (presuming nothing wrote to those areas of the disk during the disaster). Probably the best instructions on doing something

Re: [Veritas-vx] recovering lost vxvm private data from vxprint -hvt

2007-05-17 Thread Darren Dunham
Hi folks -- I lost my vxvm(3.5) metadata on my encapsulated root disk and hence have booted the system(Solaris 9) without vxvm loaded and the Filesystems in OS slices as opossed to VxVM objects.(by making appropriate changes to /etc/system and /etc/vfstab) Is there any way I can retrieve

Re: [Veritas-vx] recovering lost vxvm private data from vxprint -hvt and vxprint -htg outputs

2007-05-17 Thread Biju Krishnan
Hi Arjun, Is there any reason why you cannot encapsulate the root disk one more time?? What caused the problem?? Essentially the reason you need to encapsulate the root disk is to mirror it. Re-encapsulate, reboot and mirror should work. The technote for recovering DG's is