System dump devices should not be mirrored. You usually create 2 of them separate on each hdisk in your rootvg using smit or mklv. One will be your primary, the other the secondary.
Check out this link or check the man page of mirrorvg to read up on it:
Hello,
how can i see easily the state of a mirrored disk on a AIX 4.3.3.
I try followed command:
lslv -m >lvname> but for me is not enough information.
thanx in advance
fenomen (2 Replies)
Hello
I have a question
I have a box with Aix 5.3 with rootvg on mirror.
I deleted a filesystem and I create a new one to install some software but when I type lsvg -l rootvg all my filesystems has mirror unless the new one.
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We are considering a DR strategy of booting AIX 5.3 and 5.3 logical partitions from EMC Symmetrix SAN disks, so that we can replicate via SRDF to a recovery site. Has anyone tried configuring AIX 5.x systems to boot from SAN disk? If so, can you provide any information on the pros and cons of... (6 Replies)
Hello all,
I need help for erasing IBM P5 machine running AIX 5.3.
I have 2 system disks (Hardware mirror) and i'm looking for a way like a LIVE CD bootable CD so I can boot with the cd and then format the system disks with a "secure erase" software. (7 Replies)
Hello,
Few days ago I created both mksysb and savevg archives of rootvg.
How can I restore this rootvg now because the AIX crashed during some software tests. There is no way to start from hdisk0 because most of the system files are deleted (this includes libc.a).
I tough it will be trivial... (6 Replies)
Hello,
aix 5.2, mirrored rootvg on hdisk0 and hdisk1. hdisk0 is dead. I can boot to cd, into sms, into maintenance mode. I can fsck all the various partitions on hdisk1 (the hd4 hd2 hd3, etc...) all is fine. But without the hdisk0 part of the mirror I cannot get the system to boot. ystem hangs on... (6 Replies)
in trying to rectify a stale lv problem I ran rmlvcopy <lv> 1 <primary disk> leaving the original os disk without lv copies other than the stale lv.
Both disks seem operational, but, lsvg rootg shows 1 stale pv.
The end goal is to re-attach the lv's back to hdisk1, and then attempt a reboot... (11 Replies)
Hello,
I have two hdisk in Power7 machine, the rootvg on hdisk0.
So to make a disk redundancy should make mirror or alt_clone and what is the different.
Appreciate your help
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Hi everybody,
I have a little problem with my AIX 6.1, PowerHA 6.1 LVM mirroring.
I accidentally created logical volume cpsabcd2lv with external jfs2log loglv00 in the same volume group cpsdata2vg. Then I mirrored LV cpsabcd2lv on the second LUN in VG cpsdata2vg. My journal is unmirrored and... (0 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
backup_deldump
BACKUP_DELDUMP(8) AFS Command Reference BACKUP_DELDUMP(8)NAME
backup_deldump - Deletes a dump level from the Backup Database
SYNOPSIS
backup deldump -dump <dump level name> [-localauth]
[-cell <cell name>] [-help]
backup deld -d <dump level name> [-l]
[-c <cell name>] [-h]
DESCRIPTION
The backup deldump command deletes the indicated dump level and all of its child dump levels from the dump hierarchy in the Backup
Database. Use the backup listdumps command to display the dump hierarchy.
OPTIONS -dump <dump level name>
Specifies the complete pathname of the dump level to delete.
-localauth
Constructs a server ticket using a key from the local /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile file. The backup command interpreter presents it to
the Backup Server, Volume Server and VL Server during mutual authentication. Do not combine this flag with the -cell argument. For more
details, see backup(8).
-cell <cell name>
Names the cell in which to run the command. Do not combine this argument with the -localauth flag. For more details, see backup(8).
-help
Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.
EXAMPLES
The following command deletes the dump level "/sunday1/monday1" from the dump hierarchy, along with any of its child dump levels.
% backup deldump /sunday1/monday1
PRIVILEGE REQUIRED
The issuer must be listed in the /etc/openafs/server/UserList file on every machine where the Backup Server is running, or must be logged
onto a server machine as the local superuser "root" if the -localauth flag is included.
SEE ALSO backup(8), backup_adddump(8), backup_listdumps(8)COPYRIGHT
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OpenAFS 2012-03-26 BACKUP_DELDUMP(8)