Thanks for the quick replies, see below. After trying Cliff's suggestion
below and after talking with DEC support, we had to accept the bad news
that a restore from tape is our only option.
I didn't try advscan as mentioned by Matt, but I doubt this would have helped
after talking with DEC support.
And as Steve mentioned, I was just as surprised that the system let me
destroy a mounted filesystem.
DEC does have a setld patch for all the Advfs bugs in v3.2c, that which I'm
downloading and will soon install.
-Bill Sadvary
Dickinson College
PS: Original post is way at the end.
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>From SSTROBEL_at_steelcase.com Tue Feb 4 09:00:03 1997
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 15:05:38 -0500
From: SSTROBEL_at_steelcase.com
To: "sadvary(a)minus9.dickinson.edu" <sadvary_at_minus9.dickinson.edu>
Subject: How to recover fileset?
Do you a good backup?? I don't believe you can recover it. I am even
more surprised that it let you delete a mounted file set.
from the 3.2g man pages on rmfset
To remove a fileset, the fileset must be unmounted and without a clone
fileset. You must have root-user privilege to access this command.
Good luck.
Steve STrobel
sstrobel_at_steelcase.com
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>From ckrieger_at_latrade.com Tue Feb 4 09:06:20 1997
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 15:12:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Cliff Krieger <ckrieger_at_latrade.com>
To: sadvary_at_dickinson.edu
Subject: Re: How to recover fileset?
Bill,
Just a thought:
You say you did a rmfset, buy you use the word domain. If you actually
wiped out your file domain the following might work. If you took out
your file set, I don't have any ideas.
If the rmfset did not actually wipe the data from the disk, you might be
able to recover it with the following procedure:
1) cd /etc/fdmns
2) mkdir trouble
3) cd trouble
4) ln -s /dev/rz???
5) showfsets trouble
If step 5 shows you your file sets, now under the filedomain "trouble"
then you can procede to mount them. At that point I would make a backup
first and foremost. If that works, then the fileset may be stable
enough to put back into production.
Note: If your file domain has more than one disk then you need a sym
link to each of the device files.
Good luck,
-cliff
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>From moore_at_shemp.bucks.edu Tue Feb 4 09:06:26 1997
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 14:53:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Matt Moore <moore_at_shemp.bucks.edu>
To: Bill Sadvary <sadvary_at_dickinson.edu>
Subject: Re: How to recover fileset?
Did you check out advscan? It should be in man8.
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Matt Moore N3LPH Bucks County Community College
E-mail: moorem_at_bucks.edu Swamp Road Newtown PA 18940
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>From sadvary_at_dickinson.edu Tue Feb 4 10:06:01 1997
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 14:37:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Sadvary <sadvary_at_dickinson.edu>
To: alpha-osf-managers_at_ornl.gov
Subject: How to recover fileset?
Followup-To: poster
Major blunder..
I mistakenly removed a live fileset while on a live system with users.
# /sbin/rmfset __domain__
This crashed the system but now my main concerning is getting the
filesystem back.
Can I recover this?
I had to remove that filesystem from fstab to be able to run
/sbin/bcheckrc while at singleuser.
Quick replies will be greatly appreciated!!
(Waiting for DEC support to return my logged call)
IMPORTANT: Reply to sadvary_at_minus9.dickinson.edu
Thanks,
-Bill
Received on Tue Feb 04 1997 - 17:04:58 NZDT