VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Migration Guide (August 2002)

Examples Final 24 July 2002
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2. Use the recovery method to restore user or application data. In preparation for
conversion, the recovery method should have been done with the standard backups
you made in preparation for conversion. The following example shows an frecover
from the fbackup example in “step 4. Backing up your LVM configuration and user
data.”
# mount -F vxfs /dev/vg01/lvol3 /foodir
# frecover -r -f /dev/rmt/c0t0d0BEST
Examples
Example: displaying the vxvmconvert menu
To display the vxvmconvert menu, use the following command:
# vxvmconvert
The following menu is displayed:
Volume Manager Support Operations
Menu: Volume Manager/LVM_Conversion
1 Analyze LVM Volume Groups for Conversion
2 Convert LVM Volume Groups to VxVM
3 Roll back from VxVM to LVM
list List disk information
listvg List LVM Volume Group information
? Display help about menu
?? Display help about the menuing system
q Exit from menus
Example: listing disk information
The list option of vxvmconvert displays information about the disks on a system.
Select the list option from the vxvmconvert Main Menu:
Menu: Volume Manager/LVM_Conversion/list
# list
Use this menu option to display a list of disks. You can also
choose to list detailed information about a disk by entering a
specific disk device address.
Enter disk device or "all" [<address>,all,q,?]
(default: all) x
DEVICE DISK GROUP STATUS
c0t5d0 - - online
c0t8d0 - - LVM