Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Administrator's Guide (September 2006)

264 Administering volumes
Adding a mirror to a volume
2 Select menu item 5 (Mirror volumes on a disk) from the vxdiskadm
main menu.
3 At the following prompt, enter the disk name of the disk that you wish to mirror:
Mirror volumes on a disk
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/Mirror
This operation can be used to mirror volumes on a disk. These
volumes can be mirrored onto another disk or onto any
available disk space. Volumes will not be mirrored if they are
already mirrored. Also, volumes that are comprised of more
than one subdisk will not be mirrored.
Enter disk name [<disk>,list,q,?] mydg02
4 At the following prompt, enter the target disk name (this disk must be the same size
or larger than the originating disk):
You can choose to mirror volumes from disk mydg02 onto any
available disk space, or you can choose to mirror onto a
specific disk. To mirror to a specific disk, select the name of
that disk. To mirror to any available disk space, select
"any".
Enter destination disk [<disk>,list,q,?] (default: any) mydg01
5 At the following prompt, press Return to make the mirror:
The requested operation is to mirror all volumes on disk
mydg02 in disk group mydg onto available disk space on disk
mydg01.
VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-229 This operation can take a long time to
complete.
Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)
The vxdiskadm program displays the status of the mirroring operation, as follows:
VxVM vxmirror INFO V-5-2-22 Mirror volume voltest-bk00 ...
VxVM INFO V-5-2-674 Mirroring of disk mydg01 is complete.
6 At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to mirror volumes on another
disk (y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):
Mirror volumes on another disk? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)