Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 11:43:01 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum and 3.2R -> 3.3R upgrade Message-ID: <199910021843.LAA17649@mina.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Oct 1999 11:04:07 %2B0930." <19991002110407.O496@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.co> wrote:
> On Friday, 1 October 1999 at 16:10:19 -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote:
>
> > In upgrading one of my systems from 3.1-RELEASE to 3.3-RELEASE[*], I
> > couldn't get vinum to recognize my existing volume (it kept on thinking
> > that the disks were crashed). After a couple frustrating hours, I ended
> > up blowing away the volume and recreating it ("vinum resetconfig" is
> > your friend ;-). Fortunately, I backed up the system before upgrading
> > it. ;-)
>
> You don't really want to do this if you have an alternative. Assuming
> you haven't completely hosed your configuration (which, unfortunately,
> is possible), you could have upgraded to the patch I released a day or
> two ago.
Yes. Unfortunately, I did all this a week ago, before I heard
about the patch, and there's a good chance that I hosed the
configuration at some point. I tried all sorts of vinum commands,
trying to resurrect the volume, including "vinum create", before I gave
up and did a resetconfig and dd.
> > [*] -- My 3.3-RELEASE subscription disk arrived in the mail, and I
> > thought, "What the hell -- it's about time I upgraded". Urg. I
> > knew I was in for some fun, as I'm using both vinum and
> > softupdates, but I wasn't expecting to actually *use* my backups
> > ;-). I think it's time I moved that system to -stable, anyway.
>
> You should really do that.
Definitely.
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@sr.hp.com
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