From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 8 17:48:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5242437B422 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 17:48:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 45EE06ACB7; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 10:18:01 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 10:18:01 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: kam@salsolutions.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum volume restore help? Message-ID: <20010409101801.B19180@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from netalchemist@hotmail.com on Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 03:58:41PM -0000 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 8 April 2001 at 15:58:41 -0000, Kam Salisbury wrote: > Ok, I admit my cavalier attitude may have gotten me into more trouble than a > command shell can fix this time. > > I saved my configuration files for my vinum mirror and installed a new root > file system (ad4) 10GB. The vinum mirror is on ad6 and ad7, both 20GB > drives. I can restore my vinum.conf but cannot figure out how to get the > vinum mirror back. I am reluctant to issue a "newfs..." command like what is > found in the instructions at freebsddiary.org (how I made my mirror in the > first place) newfs blows away your data. There's no reason to do that. > "Any" help or even an admonishment is helpful and appreciated as there is > about 7GB of data on that mirror which is now backed up. > > I know, I know... I am not looking good because of the lack of a backup for > the data. I blame this on my click-n-play NT background where you can just > break the mirror and re-create it again. Problem is, I am so unfamiliar with > vinum I am afraid to issue commands in the man pages that say "for emergency > use only" > > Help? Well, having read this, I'm still not sure what problems you're having. What happens when you try to start Vinum? You should also take a look at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html and supply me with any relevant information you have there. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message