System Recovery for the Solaris OS When the Meta Database Is Deleted AccidentallyMay, 2008 This tech tip provides a recovery procedure that can be used when a meta database is accidentally destroyed or corrupted on a system that runs the Solaris 9 or 10 OS and Solaris Volume Manager. How to Leave Comments or Tag Pages1. Register. |
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Comments (2)
May 21, 2008
MarkDrummond says:
What if it is deleted on purpose?What if it is deleted on purpose?
Jun 19, 2008
AteeqA says:
If you make it a practice to create a set of system.nomd and vfstab.nomd (or eve...If you make it a practice to create a set of system.nomd and vfstab.nomd (or even system.nomd and vfstab.primary and vfstab.secondary files) you can simply use boot -b to specify alternative system and vfstab files. I tend only to have minumum OS slices in there to increase the chanced of vfstab.nomd still pointing at the right place when you need it.
What would be really nice is if Solaris Volume Manager could do this for you on systems with simple mirroring so the files would be kept up to date