metainit: Sol10: there are no existing databases

UNIX Solaris
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Hi Experts,
I am in direction to mirror filesystem in solaris10. Many articles I've read but not much help. Everytime I issued command metainit I always get 'there are no existing databases'. I don't know which steps I missed.

bash-3.2# metainit -f d11 1 1 c0t0d0s0
metainit: Sol10: there are no existing databases

I have two harddisk Installed and later I expect that c0t0d0s0 will be mirrored to c0t1d0s0.

I hope Solaris Experts give me solution.

Thx
FA

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You have to create the metadevice state database and replicas using metadb before you can use metainit.

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State Database Replicas (Task Map) - Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide

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Hi Murphy and Bartus,
wow thanks...
Actually I already executed command metadb before metainit, but how didn't aware that I should do it for c0t1d0s0 instead of c0t0d0s0.
Now mirroring happened in my server.

Thx alot
FA