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Backup and Recover VxVM Disk Configuration

Published 5 May 2008 Read time 3 min(s) 43 sec(s) (3333 visits).

How to backup Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) configuration for a disk group and use the backup to recover the disk group configuration

Published 1 May 2008 Read time 31 sec(s) (170 visits).

In a nuyshell, the K9Toolkit is a collection of tools written using the KStat library on a Solaris 9 server to help locate performance bottlenecks.

Published 30 Apr 2008 Read time 2 min(s) 12 sec(s) (3233 visits).

Host name resolution issues can cause the NetWorker server to become unresponsive or start very slowly.

Updated 30 Apr 2008 Read time 1 min 25 sec(s) (4439 visits).

After changing the IP address of a SAM-QFS server clients are unable to mount the SAM-QFS file systems.

Published 26 Apr 2008 Read time 1 min 33 sec(s) (3271 visits).

Different backup levels are a trade off, size or amount of time required to complete a backup with that required to recover from a recovery.

Published 24 Apr 2008 Read time 27 sec(s) (2586 visits).

A simple post providing details of using sysperfstat from the K9 toolkit displaying utilisiation and saturation for CPU, memory, disk, etc.

Published 22 Apr 2008 Read time 37 sec(s) (3181 visits).

If you have a file and need to know the package that installed the file on the system then using pkgchk should help.

Published 22 Apr 2008 Read time 1 min 11 sec(s) (3280 visits).

If you have a file and need to know the package that installed the file on the system then using pkgchk should help.

Published 17 Apr 2008 Read time 1 min 8 sec(s) (3380 visits).

We use the samfsck command to rename a SAM-QFS file system after making the necessary changes in the mcf file.

Published 13 Apr 2008 Read time 1 min 20 sec(s) (2602 visits).

Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) is the system management firmware used to monitor, manage, and configure a variety of Sun server platforms.