Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Troubleshooting Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008

6 Contents
Recovering a system by booting from a VxVM root disk mirror ................. 35
Recovering a system by booting from recovery media .................................. 36
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
Initiating 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
Index 99