[SunHELP] Re: [Veritas-vx] How to get a "recue" encapsulated bootdisk ?

[Doug Hughes]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, DAUBIGNE Sebastien  - BOR wrote:

> 
> I wondered if there was  any way to get a "rescue" encapsulated bootdisk.
> 
> Suppose I plan to apply some patches and I want to keep a rescue disk 
> in  case the procedure goes wrong.
> 
> I could make a mirror for rootdisk, detach every plex on this disk, and
> boot on this mirror, but I suppose the state of theses volumes will be
> STALE,
> making it unable to boot, right ?
> 
> Is there another possibility ?
> 

the vxplex man page has an example of how you can detach a mirror
and make it into a separate volume. Or, you could use the techniques
of the howard/trantham paper which recommends several alternate
root/recovery types of disks.