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Hello,
Could someone please tell me the simplest way to add a
2nd disk to my Netra ? I'd like to replicate the first one in
order to have a backup.
Must I use a console and the 'ok' prompt ? If yes to do
which tasks ?
Then what is the series of commands to execute (can I
use 'dd' etc.) ?
What's the *simplest* method please ? (I'm no administrator)

Thanks !
Seb

"Sébastien de Mapias" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> Could someone please tell me the simplest way to add a
> 2nd disk to my Netra ? I'd like to replicate the first one in
> order to have a backup.
> Must I use a console and the 'ok' prompt ? If yes to do
> which tasks ?
> Then what is the series of commands to execute (can I
> use 'dd' etc.) ?
> What's the *simplest* method please ? (I'm no administrator)
>
> Thanks !
> Seb

You will need a disk that is the same size as what you have now.
If Solstice DiskSuite is not installed you will need to install it.
Solaris 9 and 10 usually have this already installed, but on Solaris 8 it
will likely need to be added.
A free slice on the boot disk will need to be available. Around 50 MB is
good.

There are lots of documents on how to do the actual mirroring.

Most tasks will be done within the OS.
Physically opening the server and adding the second drive will be the
biggest part.

Trinean

Sébastien de Mapias wrote:
> Hello,
> Could someone please tell me the simplest way to add a
> 2nd disk to my Netra ? I'd like to replicate the first one in
> order to have a backup.
> Must I use a console and the 'ok' prompt ? If yes to do
> which tasks ?
> Then what is the series of commands to execute (can I
> use 'dd' etc.) ?
> What's the *simplest* method please ? (I'm no administrator)

If you're not an administrator you should not do this if there are any
valuable data on your disk.

But the steps can be like this (ask an experienced admin to do this)

1. Get an identical disk and push it in (they use to be hot swap on
Netras) and then make it available to Solaris
# devfsadm disks

2. Get the partition info from the first disk and make the new identical
# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2

3. dd the data from old to new disk
# dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 of=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0 bs=512
etc. for remining slices

4. Pull out new disk and store safely

In article <[email protected]>,
"Thommy M." <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sébastien de Mapias wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Could someone please tell me the simplest way to add a
> > 2nd disk to my Netra ? I'd like to replicate the first one in
> > order to have a backup.
> > Must I use a console and the 'ok' prompt ? If yes to do
> > which tasks ?
> > Then what is the series of commands to execute (can I
> > use 'dd' etc.) ?
> > What's the *simplest* method please ? (I'm no administrator)
>
> If you're not an administrator you should not do this if there are any
> valuable data on your disk.
>
> But the steps can be like this (ask an experienced admin to do this)
>
> 1. Get an identical disk and push it in (they use to be hot swap on
> Netras) and then make it available to Solaris
> # devfsadm disks

The Netra X1 is IDE based and does not support hot swappable drives. It
doesn't even provide a means to access the drives without removing the<br