Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Troubleshooting Guide Guide (September 2006)

4 Contents
Starting VxVM after booting from recovery media .........................................37
Recovering the root volume after VxVM emergency startup ...........................37
Fixing a missing or corrupt /etc/vx/volboot file ...............................................38
Using VxVM Maintenance Mode Boot ....................................................................38
Recovery by reinstallation ........................................................................................39
Chapter 4 Logging commands and transactions
Logging commands ...................................................................................................41
Logging transactions .................................................................................................44
Associating command and transaction logs ..............................................................46
Chapter 5 Backing up and restoring disk group configurations
Backing up a disk group configuration .....................................................................48
Restoring a disk group configuration ........................................................................49
Resolving conflicting backups for a disk group ...............................................50
Chapter 6 Error messages
Logging error messages ............................................................................................53
Configuring logging in the startup script ..........................................................54
Understanding messages ...........................................................................................55
Messages ...........................................................................................................57