Attention A. Clay Stephenson

[Alexander M. Ermes]

Hi Clay.
Could you email me some more details about the lifeboat setup ? ( Alexander_Ermes@web.de )
TIA
Alexander M. Ermes

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Hi Alexander,

This is my 3rd request for the 'lifeboat' so it must have hit a nerve.

It's nothing fancy at all. You use dd to copy every block from the disks which make up vg00 to another group of identical disks. Obviously, vg00 could comprise 1 disk. I've attached a working example just make sure that you alter the SRC and DEST arrays to match your box. It's best to do this at a time when the system is realatively quiet. In my case, I do it as a cronjob on my boxes at 0300 on Sundays. The machine will do a fcsk since the filesystems were not cleanly unmounted but I've never had this to fail me. I just pull my hot-swap boot disks and move the 'lifeboats' into the boot disk slots and away it goes.

Clay

[Alexander M. Ermes]

Thank you very much, Clay.