Boot disk crash with metadb config info

UNIX Solaris
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Hello all;

We have a SunFire V240 with three disks that were part of a metadb. One of those disks, the boot disk, experienced a horrible death Monday night and we're now trying to recover from that.

I know very little about metadb stuff, so please be gentle with me...

I'm assuming (yes, I know about assuming :slight_smile: ) that the config files for the metadb were also on the boot disk. I reinstalled Solaris 10 on a new disk, but now am stuck as to how to create a new metadb without losing the data that is on two disks that were part of the old metadb.

I know that if I create a new metadb and connect the other two disks, the data on those disks will be lost, so I'm wondering if there's a way to do this without losing the data?

This is on a production system, so I'm really in the hot seat right now...
Please Help!!

Handon

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Post output of:

metadb -i
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Hi, thanks for your response.

The output from executing the metadb -i command is:

metadb: proz218: there are no existing databases

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You might try this:

  1. Restore
/etc/lvm/mddb.cf 
/etc/lvm/md.tab 
/kernel/drv/md.conf

From your latest backup.
2. Reboot
3. Run metadb -i again.