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

[Robert Lucente]

>howard/trantham paper
I am new to Veritas. Please let me know the url
of where I can find this paper.


Robert Lucente
email: rlucente at pipeline.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Hughes" <doug at eng.auburn.edu>
To: "DAUBIGNE Sebastien - BOR" <Sebastien.DAUBIGNE at sema.fr>
Cc: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>; <veritas-vx at mailman.eng.auburn.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] How to get a "recue" encapsulated bootdisk ?


> 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.
>
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