Restoing State Databases

[dbbyleo]

I'm wondering if I can restore state databases I previous had on the server.

This is what happened:

I have my / filesystem on disk01. I had created a mirrored volume with disk02-disk05.

My root file system got "messed up" and I had to reinstall the OS on /.

I have backups of the server on tape.

Is there a way I can restore certain files on / to recover my state databases. Since disk02-disk05 are OK, is there a way I can restore the mirrored volume by restoring files on the / volume without recreating the mirror??

 

[daFranze]

I'm not sure if you understood what is "mirrored". If the / on disk01 is messed up then disk02-05 is messed up, too!?

You can boot the system from the second disk (or second mirror). If SDS does not have enough stateDBs on these Disks you can boot from CDrom and add
set md:mirrored_root_flag=1
to your /a/etc/system.
If you don't have a devalias for your second disk you will need to add one or type the physical path to the disk
eg:
ok boot /pci@...../
ok boot disk2

Best Regards, Franz
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Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years in the domain of the OS, Backup and Storage