recovering root disk

[Yeap Chin Heng]

Hi,

My root disk failed and I tried to recover via make_tape_recovery. But it halfway stating the archive is corrupted.

Now I am trying to recover the root disk from my Veritas backup. Below is what I intend to do. Pls advise me if it is feasible or are there any batter ways to recover my root disk.

1) Use make_tape_recovery from another server (same class) to bring up the failed server on one of the disk. (failed server have 2 internal disks)
2) Change hostname, IP, reconfigure backup software.
3) Restore the failed server / and all other systems mount points on the seconed disk.
4) Make second disk bootable.
5) Failed server should be recovered.


Questions:
1) Any problem to recover using make_tape_recovery from another server? Any problem with the device path of the HBA to connect to my tape library?
2) How do I configure the failed server to have a second disk and allow the restore of the original root disk onto the second disk?
3) How do I make the second disk bootable and boot from it if the restoration is successful?


Thank you.
Rgds
Chin Heng