Re: [SAGE] AIX: Restore from mksysb has missing device special files

[Ng Pheng Siong <ngps@netmemetic.com>]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:39:51PM -0400, Kevin Ruderman wrote:
> Ng Pheng Siong wrote:
> >The restoration appears fine, but the device special files for filesystems 
> >on other than the first hard disk are missing, so the system is unable to
> >mount them. (I'm assuming the data is intact there. ;-)
> 
> The correct way to access the data is to use importvg.  You will need to
> do this once for each volume group on the "old" system (not including the
> root volume group rootvg, the mksysb restore created that).
> 
> [ Very comprehensive explanation. ]

Thank you, Kevin.

>    importvg -y myvg01 hdisk1

Did that for hdisk[123], fsck'ed then mounted the newly identified
entries in /etc/filesystems. All is well again.

Much appreciated. Cheers.

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Ng Pheng Siong <ngps@netmemetic.com>