Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 11:33:46 -0000 From: "Kam Salisbury" <netalchemist@hotmail.com> To: grog@lemis.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum volume restore help? Message-ID: <F114MjkatwD43oFLaqS000026f9@hotmail.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Sorry, here is the relevant information as per your site; What problems are you having? *Cannot mount vinum volume "mirror". Which version of FreeBSD are you running? *Free BSD 4.2 stable, cvsup'ed weekly. Have you made any changes to the system sources, including Vinum? *"make buildworld..." completed weekly. Supply the output of the vinum list command. I can send this later this evening, I am not at the box right now. *I do remember it showing 0 volumes, plexes, disks. If you can't start Vinum, supply the on-disk configuration, as described below. If you can't start Vinum, then (and only then) send a copy of the configuration file. Vinum starts. *I have even attempted "vinum create -f /etc/vinum.conf" specifying the configurationfile from my backup. Supply an extract of the Vinum history file. Unless you have explicitly renamed it, it will be /var/log/vinum_history. This file can get very big; please limit it to the time around when you have the problems. Each line contains a timestamp at the beginning, so you will have no difficulty in establishing which data is of relevance. *I shall if you need later this evening... I really did not want to hesitate to reply. Supply an extract of the file /var/log/messages. Restrict the extract to the same time frame as the history file. Again, each line contains a timestamp at the beginning, so you will have no difficulty in establishing which data is of relevance. *I can see now that I should have copied most of my logs to floppy before leaving the house today. If you have a crash, please supply a backtrace from the dump analysis as discussed below under Kernel Panics. Please don't delete the crash dump; it may be needed for further analysis. *No crashes. Though, vinum list shows the volume "mirror" with its two members in a crashed and faulty, state being down. Thanks for the speedy reply Mr. Lehey, I will append the logs snippits later this evening. Kam. >From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> >To: kam@salsolutions.net >CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Vinum volume restore help? >Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 10:18:01 +0930 > >On Sunday, 8 April 2001 at 15:58:41 -0000, Kam Salisbury wrote: > > Ok, I admit my cavalier attitude may have gotten me into more trouble >than a > > command shell can fix this time. > > > > I saved my configuration files for my vinum mirror and installed a new >root > > file system (ad4) 10GB. The vinum mirror is on ad6 and ad7, both 20GB > > drives. I can restore my vinum.conf but cannot figure out how to get the > > vinum mirror back. I am reluctant to issue a "newfs..." command like >what is > > found in the instructions at freebsddiary.org (how I made my mirror in >the > > first place) > >newfs blows away your data. There's no reason to do that. > > > "Any" help or even an admonishment is helpful and appreciated as there >is > > about 7GB of data on that mirror which is now backed up. > > > > I know, I know... I am not looking good because of the lack of a backup >for > > the data. I blame this on my click-n-play NT background where you can >just > > break the mirror and re-create it again. Problem is, I am so unfamiliar >with > > vinum I am afraid to issue commands in the man pages that say "for >emergency > > use only" > > > > Help? > >Well, having read this, I'm still not sure what problems you're >having. What happens when you try to start Vinum? You should >also take a look at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html and >supply me with any relevant information you have there. > >Greg >-- >When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. >If you don't, I may ignore the reply. >For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html >Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key >See complete headers for address and phone numbers > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?F114MjkatwD43oFLaqS000026f9>