VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Troubleshooting Guide

Backing Up and Restoring Disk Group Conﬁgurations

Restoring a Disk Group Conﬁguration

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If any of the disk headers are reinstalled, a saved copy of the disks’ attributes is used to

recreate their private and public regions. These disks are also assigned new diskIDs. The

VxVM objects within the disk group are then recreated using the backupconﬁguration records

for the disk group. This process also has the effect of creating new conﬁguration copies in the

disk group.

Volumes are synchronized in the background. For large volume conﬁgurations, it may take

some time to perform the synchronization. You can use the vxtask-l list command to

monitor the progress of this operation.

NOTE Disks that are in use or whose layout has been changed are excluded from the

restoration process.

For more information, see the vxconfigrestore(1M) manual page.