All solaris rescue gurus out there ....

I've a Solaris 2.6 E450 on which my sysadmin guy has deleted every file (not sub-directories) from the /etc directory.

The machine is (was) running Vxvm with the root volume encapsulated.

I've tried booting from CDROM, mounting the root volume directly, and copying the contents of the etc directory back into place then editing the /etc/system file to forceload drivers and put in Vxvm entries to get the root volume up but the system fails to forceload the drivers then panics with a mutex error.

A'm I going about this the right way, or is there a better way?

I need to get some data off one of the other Vxvm-managed volumes.

Problem is that /usr /var and /opt were all seperate volumes and have been encapsulated under volume manager. The / volume is not big enough to hold the whole OS and

We've patched enough of the etc directory back together to get the machine running off the rootvol but then the machine has no /usr contents and hence no commands to do anything..

The boot proess is falling apart every time I try to add back the VX config into the /etc/system file to allow boot with Volume Manager enabled, either because it can't do the focreload of the vx drivers.

Does anyone kno why (how to) when I'm booted from CD, how to eject the OS CD so that I can insert the Vol Manager install CD and try tools on there?

thanks for your help guys/gals

andy

The best way obviously would be to restore from backup.

There is a bunch of vxvm stuff under /etc/vx as well that will have to be back.

Is the data you are trying to recover in rootdg? What version of volume manager?

If the data is in another disk group, you can reinstall the OS (being careful which disk you choose, maybe even a new disk if there is enough open slots), then import the disk group, start the voumes, mount the file systems, and copy the data.

thank-you for the speedy reply.

When you re-install the OS do you need to supply a key for volume manager (we're using v2.6)

thank-you again

andy

Not when you reinstall the OS, but you will when you install vxvm. You can run vxlicrep to get your current license keys (at least on 3.2, 3.5, and 4.0). It is under /opt, just do I find.