Well, it turned out to be me forgetting the way AdvFs keeps
it's config information. Too long since I was on that course!!
The mistake I made was to create the spare filesets (i.e. on the
spare system disk) with *different fileset names* from those on
the live system disk. i.e. I overlooked the fact that the fileset
name gets stored on the disk filesystem it belongs to (presumably in
the .tags area).
So, when it came to mount /usr and /var (using the normal
live /etc/fstab that had been vrestored) it was looking for
the original fileset names, which of course didn't match the
temporary names that I had used to build the filesets on the spare disk.
The domain names are not so relevant.
Lots of people helped, and one or two hinted at this (including
a suggestion to use dd to do the copy, which would of course pick
up the fileset info too).
It was Ahmed Elouassif and Oisin McGuiness who spelt it
out though - thanks guys! And thanks too to Colin Walters
who sent a script to automate this and pointed me to a
best practice document he's writing :
http://www.unix.digital.com/faqs/publications/best_practices/BP_RECROOT/TITL
E.HTM
N.B this relates to *V5.0* only, but it does give a clear idea of the
main general steps.
Thanks to everyone below - hope I didn't miss anyone:
Calvin Coghlan Bruce B. Platt Chan Cao Ruben Cortegoso Alay Shah Steve
Coates Dirk Kleinhesselink John P Speno John Morley Sean O'Connell Nikola
Milutinovic Hoai TRAN Pierre Bergdolt Corinne Haesaerts Ahmed Elouassif
Werner Hahling Mitch Kulberg Oisin McGuinness Colin Walters
Until the next time.. ;-)
Lindsay
Received on Fri Sep 15 2000 - 08:32:41 NZST