Moving Domain From Server To Another

[AZayed]

Dears,

Good day,

We are trying to move domain from server to another. we are using EVA 8000 with HP-UX 11.23 Every time we are trying to import the domain to another server it says : "cannot find physical disks !" and SAM trying to format it. We need to mount the partition it contain important data.

Regards,

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi Ahmad,

Try to locate your moved disks with ioscan.

# ioscan -fnCdisk

Are the device files created for the disks?
If not create the device files and add them to a file in /tmp

# insf -e

# ioscan -fnCdisk

# vi /tmp/disks
/dev/dsk/cxtydz
/dev/dsk/cxtydz
etc

# ll /dev/*/group
pick a free volume group name and a free minor number

# mkdir /dev/vgxx
# mknod /dev/vgxx/group c 64 minornumber

# mkdir /dev/vgxx

preview import
# vgimport -p -v -f /tmp/disks /dev/vgxx

If all looks ok, imort your disks into the volume group.

# vgimport -f /tmp/disks /dev/vgxx

activate the volume group
# vgchange -a y /dev/vgxx

Create mount point(s)
# mkdir /xyz

Mount your volume(s) on the mount point(s).
# mount /dev/vgxx/lvoly /xyz

Check the data.
# cd /xyz

Ok?
Add the moved filesystem and mount point info to the /etc/fstab.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Emil Velez]

Question 1
You have some disks on a HPUX box. How is the data structured LVM or VxVM or whole disk filesystems ?

Question 2
Have you presented the disks to the other server ?

Question 3
can you see the disks with
vxdisk -o alldgs or some other command. (might have to do a ioscan first)

Then you use vxdg or vgimport to access the structures on the disk so you can mount it.

[AZayed]

Thanks,

We managed to recover the data and add the domain again to the system. As I understood, Why SAM doesn't have an option that add a domain without making file system ?? !!

Regards,