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

[Doug Hughes]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Robert Lucente wrote:

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

there's a link at www.will.to/ssastuff (along with lots of other goodies
you might find useful)

> 
> 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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> >
> 

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Doug Hughes					formerly of Auburn University