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 like this is the rebuilding of EMC BCV volumes so that they get a new disk group ID -- searching on "Veritas" and "BCV" should find the procedures. They usually depend on a specific format of "vxprint" having been saved beforehand so you may have to adjust the procedures to fit what data you have. Essentially it'll be a series of "vxmake" commands specifying the device, offset and lengths of the originals from the saved output for the subdisks, then building those into plexed and finally volumes. Best of luck! Cheers, - Mike Myers, mike.myers <at> nwdc.net -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arjun koneru Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:40 AM To: Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-vx] recovering lost vxvm private data from vxprint -hvtand vxprint -htg outputs 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 the lost private data from the saved outputs(prioir to the disaster struck) of vxprint -htg rootdg ? Thanks for any hint/help you may offer! Arjun _______________________________________________ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx
