VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Installation Guide (September 2004)

Uninstalling the VERITAS Volume Manager
Preparing to Remove VxVM
Chapter 6
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Moving Data Out of VxVM Control
Before removing the VxVM, all the VxVM volumes must be moved to LVM disks. This can be done
in one of the following ways:
• Incrementally create LVM volumes and move the data from each VxVM volume to an LVM
volume one at a time. This procedure is described in “Preparing to Remove VxVM” on page 68.
• Back up the data from each VxVM volume, then remove the VxVM volumes and disk groups, use
vxdiskunsetup(1M) to decommission the disks, put the disks under LVM control, create LVM
logical volumes of the same size as the VxVM volumes, and restore the data from the backup.
• If you have raw data that is not on a file system, you can do a full backup of the raw data, then
remove VxVM, then recover the backup.