From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 16 14:14:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D7837B401 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:14:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-122.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 393ED43F75 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:14:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2GMEcTb010432; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 17:14:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E74F735.70001@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 17:14:13 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Cc: Guus der Kinderen , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum Question References: <20030316214151.GA15646@leviathan.inethouston.net> <5.2.0.9.0.20030316224954.00add738@pop.planet.nl> <20030316215727.GA24787@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <20030316215727.GA24787@leviathan.inethouston.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: >>>To start them, use the init command. Alternatively, modify your >> >>configuration to: >> >>>volume usr setupstate >>> plex org concat >>> sd length 14887091s drive drive1 >>> plex org concat >>> sd length 14887091s drive drive2 >>> >>>to indicate that any discrepancies in the content can be ignored, since >> >>you will be doing a newfs on the volume. >> >>Look at this page for the entire howto: >>http://www.lemis.com/grog/vinum-mirrored-corrected.html - it worked for me >> > > I'm a little sceptical to do anything right now because I don't want > to have to recover the data from a backup again if I do anything > wrong to try to bring up the second disk or is it already too late? It shouldn't cause any problem. One of the features of Vinum is that it can correct partial failures on the fly. This will take the good plex and copy it to the bad plex to get both plexes synchronized. That being said, make sure you have a good backup before proceeding. I've never had problems, but it never hurts to be safe. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message