VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Storage Administrator Administrator's Guide

Volume Tasks
Recovering a Volume
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Recovering a Volume
This procedure performs any necessary volume recovery operations on a
volume. The recovery operations depend on the type of volume and
include starting disabled volumes, resynchronizing mirrors in mirrored
volumes,and resynchronizing parity in RAID-5 volumes.After successful
recovery, the volume should be available for use again.
Alert icons and the Alert Monitor window may provide clues to let you
know that volume recovery is needed.
To recover a failed volume
Step 1. Select the volume to be recovered.
Step 2. Choose Volumes > Recover (Selected menu) or Volume Recover
(Command Launcher).
Step 3. Complete the Recover Volume dialog box as follows:
When you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box,
click OK.
Volume(s): If the correct volume name is not already displayed in
this field, type the volume’s name or click Browse to
select the volume.
Notes:
• In some cases, recovery may not be possible. If the volume recovery
fails, you can attempt to restore the volume from backup.