Uncategorized admin on 21 Jan 2002 08:00 am
Are we having fun yet?
This morning I made the mistake of speaking aloud these fateful words:"I think today is going to be a good day."I, of course, spent the next few hours on the phone with Veritas Support resurrecting a server 1,000 miles away from here. I especially liked the part when the technician said there was a 50% chance of getting our data back.
A real comedian, that fellow.
Is it just me or does Veritas Foundation Suite cause more problems than it solves? Yes, we’ve got the file system that’s supposed to do useful things vis-a-vis journaling and surviving crashes nicely but it can’t survive an orderly F*ing shutdown. Breathe on the config files wrong and the server don’t boot no more. What the hell is up with that?
Interestingly, the configuration info I had for the disk groups was out of date. As you might expect, this is not a good thing. This is the point where the Veritas tech will start running out of ideas.
If you can pull the correct volume size information out of your ass at this point it would be fantastically useful. So we did that.
Actually we used the partition information from ‘format’. Since the volume in question was a single 272 gig volume on a hardware RAID it was relatively straightforward.
And thus was the world saved, or at least 180 gigs of it. (180 gigs was the used space, BTW. Got the whole RAID back.)
I was never terribly concerned though… what with my 8-hour old backup and my redundant server. Ha! Suck on that Veritas!
Oh yeah, if you’re running vxfs now would be a good time to run ‘vxprint -ht’ and save that to a file somewhere. Maybe print it out, make a couple of copies, mail it to some friends, etc.