Disaster/Recovery Test

[Richard Ross]

Jim, Thanks for the explanation. The paths at DR should be the same, but I'm beginning to think I don't want to take that chance. So, now that you now convinced me, can you supply a sample of the script that you use? Thanks

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Richard:

I don?t have any magic scripts. Rather, I have some very straightforward templates that I use to start the process up. They?re nothing more than you would expect: ?mkdir?, ?mknod?, ?pvcreate?, ?vgcreate?, etc., etc. The important point is that I can rapidly adjust them to the current specifications (e.g. actual device files) and have syntactically correct options defined as I?d like them. For instance, if I intend to do distributed allocation for a logical volume, then I have the ?-D y ?s g? options stubbed-in for an ?lvcreate? of a logical volume. For EMC disks I would add ?-r N? to disable bad block relocation. Similarly, I would predefine ?newfs? commands with the ?-o largefiles?, as I want them. Hopefully this is of some help.

Regards!

...JRF...