VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Volume Tasks
Mirroring a Volume
Chapter 6250
volumes can be mirrored onto another disk or onto any
available disk space. Volumes will not be mirrored if
they are
already mirrored. Also, volumes that are comprised of
more than
one subdisk will not be mirrored.
Enter disk name [<disk>,list,q,?] disk02
Step 3. At the following prompt, enter the target disk name (this disk must be
the same size or larger than the originating disk):
You can choose to mirror volumes from disk disk02 onto
any
available disk space, or you can choose to mirror onto a
specific disk. To mirror to a specific disk, select the
name of
that disk. To mirror to any available disk space, select
"any".
Enter destination disk [<disk>,list,q,?] (default: any)
disk01
Step 4. At the following prompt, press Return to make the mirror:
The requested operation is to mirror all volumes on disk
disk02
in disk group rootdg onto available disk space on disk
disk01.
NOTE: This operation can take a long time to complete.
Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)
The vxdiskadm program displays the status of the mirroring operation,
as follows:
Mirror volume voltest-bk00 ...
Mirroring of disk disk01 is complete.
Step 5. At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to mirror volumes on
another disk (y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):
Mirror volumes on another disk? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)