VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Recovery
Detecting and Replacing Failed Disks
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src-02
mkting-01
failing disks:
disk02
This message shows that disk02 was detached by a failure. When a disk
is detached, I/O cannot get to that disk. The plexes home-02, src-02, and
mkting-01 were also detached (probably because of the failure of the
disk).
Again, the problem can be a cabling error. If the problem is not a cabling
error, replace the disk (see “Replacing Disks”).
Replacing Disks
Disks that have failed completely (that have been detached by failure)
can be replaced by running the vxdiskadm utility and selecting item
4(Replace a failed or removed disk) from the main menu. If any
initialized but unadded disks are available, select one of those disks as a
replacement.
Do not choose the old disk drive as a replacement even though it appears
in the selection list. If there are no suitable initialized disks, initialize a
new disk.
If a disk failure caused a volume to be disabled, the volume must be
restored from backup after the disk is replaced. To identify volumes that
wholly reside on disks that were disabled by a disk failure, use the
following command:
# vxinfo
Any volumes that are listed as Unstartable must be restored from
backup.
To restart the volume mkting so that it can be restored from backup, use
the following command:
# vxvol -o bg -f start mkting
The -o bg option combination resynchronizes plexes as a background
task.
If failures are starting to occur on a disk, but the disk has not yet failed
completely, replace the disk. To replace the disk, use the following
procedure: