Solaris

hai i am working on sun with T3 storage i am having 2 storage mirrored T3a andT3b . nowT3b is showing faulty that is the digital to optical coverter is not workig so it has to be replaced. since it will take another 5 days due to some reasons. i want to know will it create any problem while taking backup.

is it possible for me to boot my system. bcz i hav last booted my system last 16 days back.

Probably since the system will be attempting to hit drives that can't be reached (or can be reached intermittently). Backup would probably take longer with numerous errors.

Booting will take some time due to the errors you will get - and WHY boot the server just because it's been up for 16 days? I have Sun servers that have been up for hundreds of days.

are you mirroring one half of the T3 pair to the other? If you have just lost half of your mirror, that shouldn't affect your backups.