04-24-2015
That's what I was just coming to grips with. Ok - first time for everything. I've got a mksysb from a couple of weeks ago. I've burned it (volumes 1 of 3) to a DVD and am trying to do the (re)install. interestingly enough I happen to have a new disk which I've swapped into as a replacement for the bad disk.
ok so far. Boot to that cd which works nicely thank you very much.
Trying to do the restore to the new disk and it is circling around a
image.data has invalid file system data.
Can not continue.
I suppose I could try to extract the image.data and look at it, but even if I could, I doubt I'd be able to "put it back" into the mksysb.
I see two options. (1) try to restore to what I think is a good disk and hope for the best, or (2) do a fresh install, then restore from backups, etc. Kind like not to do that one, but I may not have a choice.
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vgrestore
vgrestore(1M) vgrestore(1M)
NAME
vgrestore - restore a VxVM disk group back to an LVM volume group
SYNOPSIS
/etc/vx/bin/vgrestore vg_name
DESCRIPTION
The vgrestore command restores a Logical Volume Manager (LVM) volume group that was previously converted to a VxVM disk group by the vxvm-
convert utility.
ARGUMENTS
vg_name
Specifies the name of a volume group that was converted to a VxVM disk group by the vxvmconvert utility.
EXIT CODES
vgrestore exits with one of the following values:
0 Successful completion.
>0 Failure; an error occurred.
WARNINGS
vgrestore functions only on VxVM disk groups that were converted from LVM volume groups by the vxvmconvert command.
It is a good idea to back up user data before running vgrestore, and restore it after the vgrestore completes, as vgrestore can only
restore a logical volume back to the state it was in before conversion to VxVM. If data changed on the volume while it was a VxVM volume,
the changes won't be reflected on the volume after being restored to LVM.
As part of the original conversion process, applications that once referenced the now-converted LVM volume's path names may have changed to
reference VxVM volume special device file names. Alternatively, special device file path names originally representing the now-converted
LVM volumes may have changed to symbolic links pointing to the VxVM volume path names. Be sure to undo these actions when restoring back
to LVM.
Do not use vgrestore unless you are certain that you want to restore LVM volume groups. After vgrestore this is run, the VxVM disks will
no longer exist.
EXAMPLES
To restore the LVM volume group vg03 that was converted by vxvmconvert to the VxVM disk group dg03, enter:
vgcfgrestore vg03
SEE ALSO
vxvmconvert(1M)
Veritas Volume Manager Migration Guide
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