I wanted to thank everyone that responded. The response was well received.
I am managing several servers that run the Oracle rdbms under OpenVMS
opsys and an Oracle web server that runs the colleges administrative
software. The web server is running under Tru64. I do it all(as I am sure
you all are!!). It is sometimes to much to keep in one's brain.
Be as it may, I got some good information. several respondents (alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com; Ernie Gronblom; Sweatt, Wayne; Hummers, Rick)
gave me some great narrative tips and instructions. But, the best response
was from one person, Mandell Degerness. The assumptions were almost right
on and I never expected a step by step procedure. It worked and was very
clear.
bty I AM an old vmser (over 20 years) that is managing VMS and unix, and
soon (6 months) a windows2000 nt server! (yuk!) Thank you again and keep
up the good responses. They are sorely needed by me!!
Victoria DeVore
Assumptions:
- swap is on the C partition of swap drive (rz1c)
- /data1 is on rz2c
- /data2 is on rz3c
- new drives are RZ1DF-VA drives
Procedure
- get a verified good backup
- Shut down system.
- replace swap drive and first data drive (data1).
- boot single user (boot -fl s)
- disklabel -rw /dev/rz1c RZ1DF
- disklabel -rw /dev/rz2c RZ1DF
- swapon -a <should take care of the swap area>
- newfs /dev/rz2c
- mount /dev/rz2c /mnt
- mount /data2
- vdump -0f - /data2 | vrestore -xf - -D /mnt
- umount /mnt
- umount /data2
- halt
- replace original /data1 (mark new disk with data on as DATA2 so
you don't lose it)
- put new (blank) disk in /data2 slot (put old /data2 aside)
- boot single user
- disklabel -rw /dev/rz3c RZ1DF
- newfs /dev/rz3c
- mount /dev/rz3c /mnt
- mount /data1
- vdump -0f - /data1 | vrestore -xf - -D /mnt
- umount /mnt
- umount /data1
- halt
- put NEW data1 and data2 in correct locations
- boot
That should do it.
And by God, it did! I was up and running. Impressive!
Received on Tue Aug 08 2000 - 16:45:12 NZST