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Restoring dump from tape to SCSI disk
Post 302108791 by domesat on Thursday 1st of March 2007 01:47:50 AM
03-01-2007
Restoring dump from tape to SCSI disk
Hi Gurus,
I need help. Mine is an Ultra 10 machine running on solaris 7. Problem with solaris 7 is, it can no longer recognize IDE disks greater that 10GB. My workaround is ro use an external SCSI disk since it is recognizable with solaris 7. I backup my filesystems (residing on the IDE disks) to tape using ufsdump command. I then partitioned my SCSI hard drive to be identical with the same space as with my IDE drive. Then, one by one, I restored my filesystems to the new SCSI disks using ufsrestore ivf command, then installboot...on the new root partition. I configured the /etc/vfstab file in order to synchronize with the new SCSI disk partitions. I reboot -- -r the machine and my problem begun.
It cannot see the /usr filesystem, program terminates and it goes to the OK prompt.
Any clues?
I need help. Mine is an Ultra 10 machine running on solaris 7. Problem with solaris 7 is, it can no longer recognize IDE disks greater that 10GB. My workaround is ro use an external SCSI disk since it is recognizable with solaris 7. I backup my filesystems (residing on the IDE disks) to tape using ufsdump command. I then partitioned my SCSI hard drive to be identical with the same space as with my IDE drive. Then, one by one, I restored my filesystems to the new SCSI disks using ufsrestore ivf command, then installboot...on the new root partition. I configured the /etc/vfstab file in order to synchronize with the new SCSI disk partitions. I reboot -- -r the machine and my problem begun.
It cannot see the /usr filesystem, program terminates and it goes to the OK prompt.
Any clues?
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addbadsec(1M) System Administration Commands addbadsec(1M) NAME
addbadsec - map out defective disk blocks SYNOPSIS
addbadsec [-p] [ -a blkno [blkno...]] [-f filename] raw_device DESCRIPTION
addbadsec is used by the system administrator to map out bad disk blocks. Normally, these blocks are identified during surface analysis, but occasionally the disk subsystem reports unrecoverable data errors indicating a bad block. A block number reported in this way can be fed directly into addbadsec, and the block will be remapped. addbadsec will first attempt hardware remapping. This is supported on SCSI drives and takes place at the disk hardware level. If the target is an IDE drive, then software remapping is used. In order for software remapping to succeed, the partition must contain an alternate slice and there must be room in this slice to perform the mapping. It should be understood that bad blocks lead to data loss. Remapping a defective block does not repair a damaged file. If a bad block occurs to a disk-resident file system structure such as a superblock, the entire slice might have to be recovered from a backup. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -a Adds the specified blocks to the hardware or software map. If more than one block number is specified, the entire list should be quoted and block numbers should be separated by white space. -f Adds the specified blocks to the hardware or software map. The bad blocks are listed, one per line, in the specified file. -p Causes addbadsec to print the current software map. The output shows the defective block and the assigned alternate. This option cannot be used to print the hardware map. OPERANDS
The following operand is supported: raw_device The address of the disk drive (see FILES). FILES
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See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Architecture |x86 | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
disks(1M), diskscan(1M), fdisk(1M), fmthard(1M), format(1M), attributes(5) NOTES
The format(1M) utility is available to format, label, analyze, and repair SCSI disks. This utility is included with the addbadsec, diskscan(1M), fdisk(1M), and fmthard(1M) commands available for x86. To format an IDE disk, use the DOS "format" utility; however, to label, analyze, or repair IDE disks on x86 systems, use the Solaris format(1M) utility. SunOS 5.10 24 Feb 1998 addbadsec(1M)