Import advfs domain

[H S Z]

hello Gurus,
i have a disk, used to create a domain and fileset on it. data is also on it.
i want to move the drive to another system because the OS crashed. can i still see the data on it when i move it to another system? it was created with advfs under try64 5.1B.
please advice.

[Hein van den Heuvel]

Absolutely.

I tend to just make the directory for the disk to be 'import' under /etc/fdms (can be a different name from original); add teh softlink to the device; create or find a mountpoint for the fileset(s) in the new domain, and mount those.

Check the man page for advscan and showfsets

google for some or all of: advfs move advscan disk

And you'll find plenty prior discussions like:


http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=962097


Good luck,
Hein van den Heuvel
HvdH Performance Consulting.

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

Yes, you can see it if your operating system version is the same or higher.

You must identify the disk partition that had the file system, for example, "c".

Create a directory in /etc/fdmns, for example:

mkdir /etc/fdmns/transported_domain

Link the device name and partition to that directory

ln -s /dev/disk/dskXc /etc/fdmns/transported_domain

Identify the fileset name:

showfsets transported_domains

Mount the file set:

mount transported_domain#fileset_name /mount_point

Thats all.