Solaris

Long time Linux, relatively new to Solaris.

Currently I have a Solaris 9 machine which has a mirrored root disk. We will be running some tests on this machine, and when those tests are done we want to restore it to "pre-test" status.

What I would like to do is break the mirror, pull the first drive, boot to second drive and do the testing. Then when it is over, put the first drive back in and rebuild mirror to second disk.

Thus, I am looking at using metadetach to break each mirror, and then shutting down the box, and removing the first disk, and then booting the machine up to do testing, then I intend on shutting it back down, putting first drive in, and booting then doing a metattach to rebuild mirror.

Essentially, my question is this: is this the "best" way to go about it? Is this even going to work as I intend?

I don't have a way to test this beforehand, so I was hoping to get some words of wisdom from some folks with more experience.

detach the medb and try to boot with that mirrored volume

try running command below

confirm primary & secondary
# metastat -p

detach mirror
# metadetach d## d##

confirm detachment ( u will se concat/stripe)
# metastat

change vfstab and system file in mirror disk
# mount /dev/dsk/c#t#d#s0 /mnt
# vi /mnt/etc/vfstab
# vi /mnt/etc/system

# umount /mnt

confirm boot paths in case, u don't have in eeprom

# prtconf -vp | grep -i bootpaths
# /etc/vx/bin/vxeeprom devalias
# cd /dev/rdsk/
# ls -l | grep c#t#d#s0
# ls -l | grep c#t#d#s0

# sync;sync
# halt

Verify both disks are bootable.

ok> boot primary-disk
ok> boot secon-disk