From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 2 11:44: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E99D152C8 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 11:43:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrylo@sr.hp.com) Received: from postal.sr.hp.com (root@postal.sr.hp.com [15.4.46.173]) by palrel3.hp.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id LAA19182; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 11:43:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mina.sr.hp.com (root@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by postal.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17190)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id LAA26406; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 11:43:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (darrylo@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by mina.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id LAA17649; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 11:43:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199910021843.LAA17649@mina.sr.hp.com> To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum and 3.2R -> 3.3R upgrade Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 02 Oct 1999 11:04:07 +0930." <19991002110407.O496@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 11:43:01 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey 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 DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message