Restoring a single filesystem from a savevg backup

[MickC]

Hi

We lost a disk in an AIX 5.2 server. I did a Remake Volume Group and it dumped down most of the data but seemed to stop while halfway through the last filesystem (/u01D). I tried to run the following

/usr/bin/restorevgfiles -s -r -f/dev/rmt0 /u01D

but although the tape was flashing away, it didn't do anything for two hours so I killed it and tried again using a different tape. This also didn't do anything.

Is there any way of recovering this filesystem?

Any Help Appreciated

Mick

 

[khalidaaa]

well, i don't use restorevgfiles command for restoring files. I usually use simple restore command!!!

Try this:

restore -xvqf /dev/rmt0 ./u01D

or if you still insist in using restorevgfiles then try this:

/usr/bin/restorevgfiles -f/dev/rmt0 -s ./u01D

provided that you are in the directory of the files to be restored

Regards,
Khalid