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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory Backups Post 20837 by Solaris on Monday 6th of May 2002 10:44:01 AM

05-06-2002

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After banging my head on the keyboard for a while, I built up enough courage to post this. The problem was an I/O error with one of the machines in the backup list. Apparently, 3 slices of one physical disk weren't functioning properly. It appeared to be a SCSI issue. I'm still not sure why nobody reported this to me in 2 weeks (I don't use the filesystems), but that's beside the point. I never understood why and it was careless to never figure out, but that one machine never logged the backup process in detail, like the other machines. I ended up altering my jobs to backup individual filesystems and found that some had I/O errors and caused the job to count the tape files wrong. So the confusion can be blamed on my laziness. I've learned alot more about work ethics than I have about backups, in this case. Thanks for all the help.

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volinstall(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     volinstall(8)

NAME

       volinstall - Sets up Logical Storage Manager (LSM) environment after LSM installation

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/volinstall

DESCRIPTION

       The volinstall script sets up LSM special device files, and add the following lines to the /etc/inittab file:

       lsmr:s:sysinit:/sbin/lsmbstartup  -b  </dev/console  >/dev/console  2>&1  lsm:23:wait:/sbin/lsmbstartup -n </dev/console >/dev/console 2>&1
       vol:23:wait:/sbin/volreconfig -n </dev/console >/dev/console 2>&1

       The first line calls the /sbin/lsmbstartup script, which enables LSM to start automatically on system reboot. The  second  line	calls  the
       /sbin/volreconfig script, which handles any pending encapsulation requests.

       If /sbin/lsmbstartup is not added to the /etc/inittab file, LSM must be started manually after system reboot.

									  Note

       The  volinstall script is automatically invoked by the volsetup, clu_create, and clu_add_member commands. Therefore, running the volinstall
       script to set up LSM is usually not necessary.

SEE ALSO

       inittab(4), lsmbstartup(8), volencap(8), volintro(8), volsetup(8),

																     volinstall(8)