SUMMARY: Veritas Volume Manger: Saving configuration

Hi,

Here's the summary. See below for the original question.

Marian Dragomir send me the following:

To save a VxVM disk group configuration database:

# vxprint -g diskgroup -hmQqr > backup-diskgroup

This command saves the definition of the volumes, plexes, subdisks, and
the disk group itself

You can also use the command:

# vxprint -g diskgroup -hmvpsQqr > backup-diskgroup

This command saves the definition of the volumes, plexes, and subdisks
only.

To display the saved configuration information you must use:

# vxprint -D - -rht < backup-diskgroup

This command displays the entire disk group definition, with all its
objects.


Martynas Buozis did send me a very useful mail with several tips. The link
to the original is:

http://www.eng.auburn.edu/pub/mail-lists/ssastuff/recovery.html#espen

Tom Jones & Mike Jackson send me the link of the Disaster Recovery document
on the Veritas site

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/241528.htm

Also thanks to Steve Rackham, Jagtar Ghuman, and Kevin Smith who send their
way to do it, which were less extensive variations on Dragomir's method,


Again, thanks to all, it helped me solving the problem. The
diskconfiguration is saved, and I am happy




Original Question :

Hi,

I need to save the current configuration under Veritas Volume Manager 3.2,
as the system will be reinstalled. We probably don't need the
configuration, but you never know. The diskgroups are still existing, so
maybe we want to import/rebuild them on another system.
I know this can be done with vxprint , writing the output to a file. But I
cannot figure out which options to use.
Can you help me out ??


best regards,

Andy Kannberg
System Manager
SITE UNIX group
LG Philips Displays Eindhoven
The Netherlands
tel: 040 - 2304678
fax: 040 - 2785405
e-mail: Andy.Kannberg@LGPhilips-Displays.com
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