topic Re: Re : Recovering a mirror disk in Operating System - HP-UX

Re : Recovering a mirror disk

Vincent_5 — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:44:46 GMT

Hi Guys,
Can anyone guide me how can I recover a mirror disk from a faulty harddisk. I have a rp3410 with 2 x 36GB harddisk internal running with mirror disk on vg00. Currently, one of my root disk spolit and I have replace it. But, I don't know how to recover the alt mirror disk back to the root disk. Please advice.

Regards
Vincent

Re: Re : Recovering a mirror disk

Sunil Sharma_1 — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:54:40 GMT

Have a look on this thread

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=191064

Sunil

Re: Re : Recovering a mirror disk

Suraj_2 — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 01:14:36 GMT

Hi Vincent

Please find the attached doc in ZIP format..

Also follow the link provided

Rgds
Suraj

Re: Re : Recovering a mirror disk

bhavin asokan — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 01:30:50 GMT

hi,

see the following document .it will help you.

regds

Re: Re : Recovering a mirror disk

Stf — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 03:32:28 GMT

do the foollowing :

# pvcreate -f -B /dev/rdsk/
# vgcfgrestore -n /dev/vg00 /dev/rdsk/
# vgchange -a y /dev/vg00
# mkboot /dev/rdsk/
# mkboot -a "hpux â lq (;0)/stand/vmunix" /dev/rdsk/
# lvlnboot -Rv
# vgsync /dev/vg00

then try to boot on your new mirrored disk to test it...

Stf ;

Re: Re : Recovering a mirror disk

Hoang Chi Cong_1 — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 04:00:52 GMT

Hi Vincent

Follow these steps:

1. lvlnboot -A autobackup vg00
2. vgcfgrestore -n /dev/vg00 /dev/rdsk/cXtXdX
3. vgchange -a y /dev/vg00
4. mkboot /dev/rdsk/cXtXdX
5. mkboot /dev/dsk/cXtXdX
6. mkboot -a "hpux -lq" /dev/rdsk/cXtXdX
7. lvlnboot -R
8. lvlnboot -v (check again)
9. vgsync /dev/vg00
10. shutdown -r

Goodluck to you.

Regard,

Jimkery

Re: Re : Recovering a mirror disk

Hoang Chi Cong_1 — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 04:01:41 GMT

Hi Vincent

You can do follow these steps:

1. lvlnboot -A autobackup vg00
2. vgcfgrestore -n /dev/vg00 /dev/rdsk/cXtXdX
3. vgchange -a y /dev/vg00
4. mkboot /dev/rdsk/cXtXdX
5. mkboot /dev/dsk/cXtXdX
6. mkboot -a "hpux -lq" /dev/rdsk/cXtXdX
7. lvlnboot -R
8. lvlnboot -v (check again)
9. vgsync /dev/vg00
10. shutdown -r

Goodluck to you.

Regard,

Jimkery